Taking on a fanatic with zeal in Molière's 'Tartuffe'

The grim and striking "Tartuffe" at the Shakespeare Theatre Company strides furiously into the explosive debate about faith and comedy. It's a wrathful show, one that unrepentantly sacrifices the knockabout farce that theatergoers may be expecting from Molière's famed 17th-century play exposing a religious faker.