Tartuffe Remixed opens at Marylebone Theatre on 4 September for a seven-week run, with tickets from £20 and over 2,250 seats priced under £30.
There are theatre announcements and then there are theatre announcements. Tartuffe Remixed, which opens at Marylebone Theatre on 4 September, is very much the latter.
Oscar and Olivier Award-winner Mark Rylance takes the title role in a new adaptation of Molière’s comedy masterpiece, written and directed by Darren Raymond and reimagined through the lens of a contemporary Nigerian-Jamaican family.
The Afolabi-Williams family are preparing for a wedding when Tartuffe, a charismatic man of God who has won the patriarch’s absolute trust, moves into the family home. Old loyalties fracture, faith becomes a battleground, and the family must expose the truth before the wedding day tears everything apart. Molière wrote it in 1664. It has never felt more of the moment.
The backstory is almost as good as the play
Darren Raymond founded Intermission Youth in 2008 after his own life was transformed by an encounter with Shakespeare, introduced to him by a workshop facilitator named Mark Rylance. The two have been close ever since, with Rylance serving as a trustee of Intermission, which has now worked with over 10,000 young people from disadvantaged backgrounds across London, many of them at risk of offending, channelling them through a rigorous ten-month drama programme.
Tartuffe Remixed brings that relationship full circle. Several of the cast are Intermission Youth graduates now working professionally, including Sara Mokonen, Christopher Mbaki and Morenike Onajobi, performing alongside Rylance on a West End stage. It’s a genuinely rare thing: a production that is both a serious piece of theatre and a tangible demonstration of what the company has built over nearly two decades.
What to expect
The production blends spoken word, music and rhyming verse in the style Intermission has honed across multiple Shakespeare remixes, now applied to Molière for the first time. Rylance himself has described early rehearsals as hilarious, and with Olivier Award-winning designer ULTZ on sets and costumes, the production has serious creative firepower behind it.
The run is strictly limited to seven weeks, with press night on 10 September. Marylebone Theatre has also made a significant affordability commitment: over 2,250 tickets are priced at £30 and under across the run, with a £20 lottery operating for every single performance and £15 tickets available across ten select performances for schools and community groups.
The London x London Take: This is one of the most genuinely exciting theatre announcements of the autumn. Rylance in a world premiere at a venue this intimate, with a cast and creative team this unusual, is not something that comes around often. Book early.
Need to Know
- Where: Marylebone Theatre, Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London NW1 6XT
- When: 4 September to 24 October 2026, Mon to Sat 7.30pm, Wed and Sat matinees 2.30pm
- Price: From £20 – lottery every performance
- Book: marylebonetheatre.com
