Theatre review: Tartuffe (Remixed)

Mark Rylance helps promote Intermission Youth, a community theatre project he's long been a fan of, by starring alongside a cast including alumni of Darren Raymond's company in a new version of Molière's Tartuffe. The 17th century satire of hypocrisy and the ease with which the unscrupulous can use religion to con the unwary always feels ripe for reinvention and Tartuffe Open Brackets Remixed Close Brackets relocates the story to a modern-day blended British-Nigerian-Jamaican family, as Rylance's Pastor Blake takes advantage of toxic patriarchy to wrap them all round his finger. Adanna (Sara Mokonen) is due to marry Sinclair (Ivandro Da Cruz Leite,) and everything's going well between the families until her father Oga (Usifu Jalloh) suddenly decides the groom isn't religious enough to marry his daughter.He does have an alternative husband in mind for her: Pastor Blake, who just so happens to be the one who planted the idea that piety should be the only value worth looking for in a…