The Revenger's Tragedy
by Thomas Middleton
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4 STARS
Evening Standard, Metro, The Independent, The Times, Daily Mail
'Think Sarah Kane, early Edward Bond, with Mark Ravenhill thrown in, and you’re close to defining the imaginative punch of Melly Still’s modern-dress revival…’ The Times
‘Bloody dance of sex and death strikes all the right notes’ Evening Standard
‘Club music, gothic interiors, sarcastic humour and some heavy daubs of gore….an insistent coup de theatre.’ Daily Mail
Attend me, I am past my depth in lust
And I must swim or drown.
As he holds the skull of his beloved – who rejected the licentious old Duke’s advances and so was poisoned – Vindice plots the Duke’s grotesque murder. But in a court where adultery, rape and incest are the norm, his vengeance does not stop there. An orgy of ritualistic, even playful, bloodletting follows.
Were’t not for gold and women there would be no damnation.
The Revenger's Tragedy is a ferociously dark play by Thomas Middleton, set in an avaricious world that seethes with vice and retribution. Find out more about The Revenger's Tragedy and Thomas Middleton on Wikipedia.*
Following his Olivier award-winning performance in The Man of Mode, Rory Kinnear returns to play Vindice.
Featuring live music from DJs differentGear
Suitable for 15yrs+
From 27 May 2008
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