The cast, dates and creative team have been announced for the world premiere of Tartuffe Remixed, adapted and directed by Darren Raymond.
It has been announced that Darren Raymond’s new adaptation based on Moliere’s classic play will run at the Marylebone Theatre this autumn from the 4th September until the 24th October.
Directed by Darren Raymond (Shakespeare’s Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Award 2025 recipient), Artistic Director of the award-winning Intermission Youth and Intermission Ensemble, the production’s cast is led by Oscar and Olivier-Award winner Mark Rylance.
Rylance will be joined in the production by: Intermission Youth graduates Sara Mokonen (The Jungle, Playground Theatre and West End), Black British Theatre Award nominee Christopher Mbaki (Before I Go, Brixton House) and Morenike Onajobi (Taming Who?Arcola Theatre). The cast also features actors with long-standing ties to Intermission, Nakeba Buchanan, Craig Blake (The Harder They Come, Theatre Royal Stratford East), and Blanche Williams, while award-winning Sierra Leonean storyteller and actor Usifu Jalloh (The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, Arcola Theatre) also join the line up.
The outspoken Afolabi–Williams family gathers at Oga Afolabi’s mansion as preparations begin for the wedding of his daughter. With relatives arriving from far and wide, family traditions are in full swing, emotions are running high, and opinions are never in short supply. But when Tartuffe, a charismatic man of God who has won Oga’s unwavering trust, takes up residence in the family home, old wounds reopen, loyalties are tested, and faith itself becomes a battleground. As the wedding day draws ever closer, the family must expose the truth before everything they hold dear is torn apart.
With tickets on sale now, press night is set to take place on the 10th September.
The creative team includes: ULTZ, the Olivier Award-winning and Tony-nominated set and costume designer and Simisola Majekodunmi who joins as lighting designer (Relics, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding and Ghosts, Lyric Hammersmith); Once On This Island Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane).
Marylebone Theatre’s Artistic Director Alexander J Gifford says: “For many years, Darren has been creating amazing, “remixed” versions of Shakespeare’s plays for Intermission Youth. With Mark he has turned his hand to Molière and the result is a brilliantly funny, surprisingly poignant new play. Mark was born to play Tartuffe and I have no doubt that he will deliver another iconic stage-performance. I am tremendously excited to be partnering with Intermission Ensemble, some of whose professional actors have come up through the theatre company’s youth programme. The alumni are not just fantastically talented, but highly-trained and united by a spirit of family. I expect audiences to fall in love with Tartuffe (Remixed) and for it to be hailed as an outstandingly original, deeply moving version of the classic French comedy.”
To book tickets visit: https://www.marylebonetheatre.com/productions/tartuffe-remixed