4/2/2024 0 Comments Stage lighting design sunsetSerrand ran Theatre de la Jeune Lune (Theater of the New Moon) in Minneapolis until it closed in 2008, only three years after the organization had won the regional theater Tony Award. “It’s not extremists who are dangerous, but believers.” “The religious extremists are getting stronger, from all sides,” Serrand says, explaining his attachment to the play. The West Coast press has called the production “fascinatingly sinister” and “relevant as ever, scarier than usual,” with Epp’s two-faced Tartuffe as a malevolent operator whom one reviewer likened to “House of Cards” schemer Frank Underwood. Serrand uses the word “brutal” to describe the play, and this dark version’s racy-looking ads feature a leering, peroxide-blond Steven Epp in a wardrobe-malfunction blatantly exposing his chest. It was originally so controversial that Molière rewrote it several times, trying to overcome objections by religious censors and the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV. “Tartuffe” depicts a religious faker who takes over a gullible follower’s household from top to bottom. “We had a rule that we weren’t going to cheat,” says lighting designer Marcus Dilliard.
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