Look out - there's an impostor about.(Features)

From: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England) | Date: August 25, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Tony Pogson ,

Fast and furious Action shots from Hoipolloi's The Impostor, courtesy of Geraint Lewis

WE tend to think of the con as essentially a modern sting.

But a theatre company dedicated to imagination and making us laugh is bringing a work that is the last word on conning to the LBT theatre - one with its origins in 17th-century France.

Hoipolloi's brand new production of The Impostor is freely based on Tartuffe by MoliAre, France's master of comic satire - a ...

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