[Photo from Tartuffe] Tartuffe
Molière
July 1997
The Pearlstone Theater at Center Stage, Baltimore, Maryland
"The funniest entertainment of the summer...The Maryland Stage Company's production of Molière's Tartuffe at Center Stage has more yuks than a dozen so-called movie comedies...slapstick with great gusto...we can't help but laugh ourselves silly."
--Geoffrey Himes, Patuxent Publishing

"It's the quintessential Comédie française summer fare, perfect for viewing in an air-conditioned Center Stage...a production with a lot going for it...fine local cast...thoroughly professional."

----Michael Anft, City Paper

"Bulging with bold strokes of the kind of toothsome inventiveness that has given The Maryland Stage Company so much critical acclaim since its inception...a production of highly memorable visual power...you will drive home smiling."

--Richard Gist, Baltimore/Washington Theatre Reviews Page

"Salkind plays Elmire's fake passion with such rhythmic gusto that it's almost obscene."

--Nelson Pressley, The Washington Times

"Le Tartuffe de Mehta est le grand événement de Baltimore. Le public apprécie pleinement une production courageuse, pleine d'invention de d'humour. Mehta a formé une belle équipe de comédiens et d'artistes. Ce théâtre total est rare de nos jours. Mehta travaille comme les grands metteurs en scène européens tels Giorgio Strehler, Jorge Lavelli, Peter Brook, Ariane Mnouchkine. Ne manquez pas son Tartuffe. La production vaut un voyage de Washington ou même New York."

--Rosette Lamont, France-Amérique

Photo credit: Terry Cobb

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