The Revenger's Tragedy
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 28, 2005
Closed Jan 22, 2006

Playing at
45 Below

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Running Time:
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

EXTENDED FOR AN ADDITIONAL 18 PERFORMANCES ONLY! Performances are January 6 - January 22, 2006.

The Revenger's Tragedy, a Jacobean thriller written a few years after Hamlet, is a searing examination of the need for justice and the desire for vengeance. Vindice, the "Revenger," sets off a chain reaction of havoc in a corrupt and decadent Venice, which exposes outrageous indulgences and government hypocrisy, and ends in a coup de théâtre massacre of epic proportions. Part black comedy, part social satire, the play is a gleefully macabre plot-twisting blender full of Shakespeare's greatest hits. Written by Thomas Middleton, Cyril Tourneur, or Anonymous, the work is adapted by Artistic Director Jesse Berger.

CAST: Jason C. Brown, Denis Butkus, Aaron Clayton, Saudia Davis, Amefika El-Amin, Ryan Farley, Ty Jones, Daryl Lathon, Claire Lautier, Paul Niebanck, Chris Oden, Petronia Paley, William Peden, Naomi Peters, Matthew Rauch, Russ Salmon, Daniel Talbott, Haynes Thigpen, and Marc Vietor

PRODUCTION: Jesse Berger, Tracy Bersley, Renee Blinkwolt, J David Brimmer, Emily De Cola, Kimberly Dilts, Erin Kennedy Lunsford, Daniel Levy, Dylan McCullough, Jessica Niebanck, Evan O'Brient, Clint Ramos, Mary Vorrasi, and Peter West

Box Office Hours: Tickets sold at door 1 hour prior to performance. No advance sales at door.

Group Sales Number (10+): 212-414-5168

Appropriate for ages 13 and up. Contains nudity, sexual situations and violence.

The final performance time on Sunday, January 22nd has been changed from 3pm to 1pm.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

45 Below
45 Bleecker St
New York, NY 10012

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

About 300 years ago, an English playwright (or many writers collaborating) wrote The Revenger's Tragedy, a bloody piece that a critic would later describe as "a product either of sheer barbarism or of some pitiable psychopathic perversion." Indeed, the play's body count would shame Titus Andronicus, and its depiction of incest would make Sigmund Freud's eyebrows rise. Perhaps fearing the Puritanical environment of Jacobean England, the author(s) published the play anonymously after its initial staging, and it remained neglected thereafter. It would not be performed again in London until 1966 and has remained absent from New York City's professional stages -- until now.

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Reviewed by Adam Klasfeld on Dec 2, 2005