The Hypocrites

A man loses everything in a startup bankruptcy. A woman falls in love with the voice of a call center. A family lets a stranger into their home.

Director Niels Erling and playwright Madame Nielsen reinvent Molière's TARTUFFE as a vast, wild-growing contemporary portrait about fraud, money and global inequality. A kaleidoscopic tale of crypto love, the loneliness economy, the dream salesmen and all of us who long to believe in them.

THE HYPOCRITES are moving from detached houses and police stations to global call centres and digital abysses. The show lays bare a society where friendships can be made up into debt, where love can be simulated and where one's closest confidants may be sitting behind a screen on the other side of the globe.

But who exactly is the hypocrite? The cynical con man? The lone customer? Or a society producing more loneliness than ever before?

THE HYPOCRITES is a grand ensemble performance about an economy that has learned to monetize people's longing for love, security and a different life. And about the dizzying possibility that fraudsters, deceived, in love and lost may be far more alike than we care to believe.

STARRING Lærke Winther, Andrea Øst Birkkjær, Johannes Lilleøre, Mads Reuther, Christine Sønderris, Luc Boris André, Noam Boaz Feldman Lewerissa and Cyron Melville INSTRUCTION Niels Erling PLAYWRIGHT Madame Nielsen CONCEPT Niels Erling and Madame Nielsen infinitely free following the themes of Molière's TARTUFFE SCENOGRAPHY AND COSTUME DESIGN Johan Kølkjær and Marie Rosendahl Chemnitz COMPOSER AND SOUND DESIGN Rasmus Juncker LIGHTING DESIGN Christian Alkjær