The French playwright Moli\u00e8re wrote ‘Tartuffe’ in 1664. Now more than 350 years later this young troupe of performers on the streets of Edinburgh were hawking their performance of Moli\u00e8re’s famous play as part of the Edinburgh Festival.<\/p>\n
At first I just saw a young group of performers in costume full of the vitality of the festival. Then I discovered the play and then the man who wrote it, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Moli\u00e8re.<\/p>\n
The more I read about Moli\u00e8re the more I became fascinated with the man’s life and his pursuit of his passion for theater at the expense of a comfortable high society Parisian life.<\/p>\n
I now wish I’d gone to see these young artists perform Tartuffe at the festival (the biggest scandal of Moli\u00e8re’s life’s work) .<\/p>\n
Still I am happy they walked past in the rain, stopped for a photo and introduced me to an extraordinary part of French history.<\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Tartuffe’, 1\/500s f\/3.5 ISO320 70mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The French playwright Moli\u00e8re wrote ‘Tartuffe’ in 1664. Now more than 350 years later this young troupe of performers on the streets of Edinburgh were hawking their performance of Moli\u00e8re’s famous play as part of the Edinburgh Festival. At first I just saw a young group of performers in costume full of the vitality of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1927,1916,1930,1926,1929,1924,1928,1491,1068,1931,1923,1925,29],"class_list":["post-7097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comedy","tag-costume","tag-edinburgh","tag-edinburghfestival","tag-makup","tag-moliere","tag-performers","tag-performingarts","tag-play","tag-scottland","tag-tartuffe","tag-theimposter","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7099,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions\/7099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}