The Guide
Sara Keating on theatre: A fine Molière gives welcome space to Northern voices
The Abbey’s effervescent new take on Tartuffe both raises questions about who belongs on the national theatre’s stage, and answers them
In a recent review of the Abbey Theatre’s current production, Tartuffe, a new version of Molière's 17th-century drama, a prominent theatre critic argued that the choice of Northern Irish dialect for the production “is starting to make the Abbey seem more like the Provincial Theatre of Ulster than the National Theatre of Ireland”.
It is a problematic statement on many levels, not least because of the inference that Northern Irish voices have no place upon ...
