One fool. One scoundrel. A family in uproar.

Tartuffe is a beacon of piety and in the home of wealthy merchant Orgon he has his feet firmly under the table. But all is not as it seems and as Orgon becomes more enraptured with his new companion the whole city is chattering. Is he a friend, a fraud, a miracle or a hypocrite?

The family smell a rat and amidst the frills and frivolity of seventeenth century society, they hatch a cunning plan to outwit the wily deceiver before he brings their house crashing down.

Originally banned by Louis XIV, Tartuffe is Moliere’s famous comedy re-told by the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse for their European Capital of Culture year, in a sparkling and witty new version by ‘Liverpool’s Poet Laureate’, Roger McGough.