Rose Rage
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Opened Sep 17, 2004
Closed Oct 17, 2004
Opened Sep 17, 2004
Closed Oct 17, 2004
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The Duke on 42nd Street presents the Chicago Shakespeare Company's production of Rose Rage. The show is a startlingly blunt retelling of William Shakespeare's Henry VI, and traces the monumental events surrounding England's collapse in the 15th c. from the untimely death of warrior-king Henry V, through the deterioration of his French conquests in the hands of his son Henry VI, the slow broiling of York's rebellion, and the eruption of the Wars on the Roses, one of England's bloodiest civil wars. Battle scenes and murders are mimed before a background of literal butchery, with raw meat and red cabbage serving as metaphors for the intense violence of royal disputes.
The American production of Rose Rage has an all male cast of Chicago-based actors, many who have been featured in other Chicago Shakespeare Theater productions. Edward Hall directs this adaptation by Hall & Roger Warren.
Running Time: 5 hr. 30 min. (includes 2 intermissions and a 1hr. 15min. dinner break)
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Usually, war is only figurative butchery, but director Edward Hall has decided to get literal about it. In approaching William Shakespeare's Henry VI trilogy, Hall and co-adapter Roger Warren have trimmed away the figurative fat of the Bard's dialogue, and the helmer has also placed the bloody histories in an Edwardian abattoir -- an environ that set and costume designer Michael Pavelka equips with chain-link lockers and metal catwalks. The 12 actors Hall deploys in what he calls Rose Rage initially amble into sight wearing white butcher's aprons and honing knives and cleavers. The whooshing sounds they make are nicely ominous.
Although victim after victim is snuffed over the course of t[...]