Women Beware Women
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 27, 2010
Closed Jun 8, 2010
Opened Apr 27, 2010
Closed Jun 8, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
by Thomas Middleton
In the Italian court, where wealth secures power and power serves lust, the lascivious Duke can play wherever he chooses. He catches the eye of another's exquisite bride, Bianca. Can a glance secure her fate, a bribe appease her husband?
It's a witty age,
Never were finer snares for women's honesties
Than are devis'd in these days; no spider's web
Made of a daintier thread than are now practis'd.
Isabella's father would marry her off to a rich young idiot, while Hippolito has won her trust and desires her truly. But he's her uncle. These are her choices. If twice-widowed Livia conspires against her sex to gain a little clout, she's only fighting to survive.
O the deadly snares
That women set for women, without pity
Either to soul or honour!
Corruption will not go unpunished in Thomas Middleton's blackly funny, fast and ferocious tragedy.
Sin tastes, at the first draught,
like wormwood water
But, drunk again, 'tis nectar ever after.
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Marianne Elliott's production of Middleton's potent Jacobean tragedy,
Women Beware Women, at the National Theatre, is both a dizzying and unsettling experience.
The blackly satirical play is set in Renaissance Florence, a world steeped in corruption where the powerful can take whatever and whoever they want; but Elliot has reset the work in the mid-twentieth century, where the women wear sweeping, full skirts, the music is sultry and there's a shadow of something fascistic care of Lez Brotherston's imposing set. This admittedly makes for an attractive staging but doesn't add much in the way of substance.
Where Elliott does succeed is in successfully balancing the tragic elements of the[...]