Lucrece
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Opened May 15, 2000
Closed Jun 4, 2000
Opened May 15, 2000
Closed Jun 4, 2000
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The Willow Cabin Theatre presents a timeless clash between virtue and violence, with its production of Thornton Wilder's Lucrece. The rape of Lucrece has inspired three of the world's intriguing poets, Shakespeare, André Obey and Thornton Wilder. Lucrece, the personification of Roman perfection, becomes the object of Sextus Tarquin's lust and is caught in an ever-escalating tragedy. Prompted by Shakespeare's romantic poem, André Obey wrote the dramatic Le Viol De Lucrèce, which in turn was translated by legendary playwright Wilder.
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The rape of Lucrece is a true crime story, circa 500 B.C. It has been passed down through history primarily because the ravishment of Lucrece and her subsequent suicide brought down an emperor. The story came to life again some 2000 years later when Shakespeare used it as a subject. (When he writes about something, it tends to stick around for a while.) André Obey wrote his own adaptation of the tale, Le Viol de Lucrece, in 1931; Thornton Wilder translated Obey's work, and Lucrece relived her trauma on Broadway the following year in the person of Katherine Cornell. It's this version that has been revived by The Willow Cabin Theater Company under the flamboyantly visual direction of[...]