Last year Marcus Gardley took loose inspiration from Lorca's bleak
The House of
Bernarda Alba, to create the serious but hugely entertaining
House That Will Not Stand. So I was very much looking forward to him teaming up with director Indhu
Rubasingham again for a play based on a much lighter source:
A Wolf in Snakeskin
Shoes is an adaptation of Molière’s satirical farce
Tartuffe. The play
could also be seen as a comic companion piece to Lucas Hnath's
The Christians, as
both playwrights are the sons of preachers in American megachurches, and that's
where they've set their stories. But unlike Hnath's successful church, Gardley's
play takes place in one that's hardly thriving: Tardimus Toof (Lucian Msamati) is
the self-styled Apostle whose apparently successful healing of the sick isn't
drawing in any cash - although it
does give him the chance to hit on the
young women he heals, much to the fury of his wife.
