Year: 1974
Title of the play: Tartuffe
Author: Molière Trans. Richard Wilbur
Director: Peter James
Others in the Cast: Windsor Davies, Charles Kay, Sheila Burrell, Sheila Reid, Paola Dionisotti, Robert Eddison, Robin Ellis, and Mark McManus.
Company/Event: The Actors’ Company
Theatre and location: Edinburgh International Festival
Other productions of the same play: 1975 - Brighton Festival and Wimbledon Theatre, dir Charles Kay. This time Peth played the title role.
Plot summary: Orgon and his mother have fallen under the influence of Tartuffe, a pious fraud. The stakes are raised when Orgon announces that he will marry Tartuffe to his daughter Mariane (already engaged to Valère). Mariane is, of course, very upset at this news and the rest of the family realizes how deeply Tartuffe has embedded himself into the family. (From Wikipedia)
Peth’s role: Valère / Tartuffe in 1975
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