Mark Rylance stars in Darren Raymond's Tartuffe (Remixed), a modern update of Molière's 1664 comedy about a religious fraudster who infiltrates a devout household, now transplanted to the eve of a Jamaican-Nigerian wedding at London's Marylebone theatre. The production continues a trend of relocating the play's central hypocrite figure to new cultural settings, following earlier versions that recast the character as a fake imam, though the choice to keep Rylance's Pastor Blake white raises questions about why the families would hire him over a Black clergyman, weakening the story's internal logic.

The show retains Molière's rhyming couplet structure, mixing clever wordplay with cruder rhymes, and Rylance delivers a broadly comic performance, complete with false teeth, a Bible-clutching manner and moments of physical farce. Strong supporting turns come from Usifu Jalloh, Nakeba Buchanan, Sara Mokonen and Ivandro Da Cruz Leite, though the review notes the nearly three-hour running time suffers from an overlong second act, and that shifting the satire away from Molière's original church-and-monarchy targets dilutes its political bite. The production runs at Marylebone theatre until 24 October.