Tartuffe
Vincent Landro, director of Tartuffe, saw the character Tartuffe as Satan. Vince used words like “slimey, snake, devil, and pure evil” to describe the character. The costume design became a major element for showing Tartuffe’s character. All of the other characters were clothed with soft earthy fabrics, while Tartuffe’s fabrics were hard and slick. The space was an elliptical raked platform set at an angle to the proscenium line and protruding into the audience area. All of the furniture was plain and angular. Tartuffe, the character, was always lit from acute angles. A key element of the design was the placement of 12 guitar microphones on the underside of the platform. When Tartuffe was on stage alone, the mics were used to pick-up his footsteps and reverberation was added to them to give them a hollow resonances.