Tartuffe was, to date, the last scripted piece created by Yokohama Theatre, and was a new prose adaptation of the French classic. Each performance, however, contained 45 minutes of improvisation by the actors as they played characters stuck in a rural Japanese train station in 1941. (Tartuffe was the second coproduction between YTG and Tokyo International Players.)

The bleakness of the situation of Japan in 1941 was used to contrast the light frivolity of Tartuffe itself while still delivering the play's original message on the idiocy of blind faith.