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The Revenger's Tragedy

by Thomas Middleton

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5 STARS: London Paper, Mail on Sunday, Sunday Telegraph

‘Represents the National Theatre at its very best… bold and brave not only in the way it has been executed but also in its timing.’
Sunday Telegraph

‘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+

A workpack for The Revenger’s Tragedy – aimed at teachers, pupils and a more general audience – that includes a piece on Thomas Middleton’s life, the genre of revenge tragedy and interviews with cast and creatives, is now available. Click here to read on and find out more.

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