The Roaring Girle
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 28, 2004
Closed Mar 21, 2004
Opened Feb 28, 2004
Closed Mar 21, 2004
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Running Time:
2hr. 20min.
2hr. 20min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The most infamous woman you've never heard of is at the center of The Roaring Girle: Moll Cutpurse, a woman ahead of her time, and ours. Born in 1579 at Barbican Aldersgate Street and died of dropsy in 1650 at Fleet Street, Moll became 17th century London's most notorious cross-dresser and "governess of the underworld". Playwright Alice Tuan has brought Moll into the 21st century, freely adapting the original text by Middleton & Dekker into a quick-witted satire that takes place in a world where the days of the week have corporate sponsors, free speech costs a fortune, beauty is mandatory and theatre has been declared illegal. The plot includes plenty of Jacobean twists and turns - star crossed lovers, gallants out of cash, and hapless comic servants. Against this backdrop, Moll stages an insurgent performance of her forbidden "Show of Shows" rallying her fellow citizens into a roar against the authoritarian attitudes of the day.
The Foundry Theatre presents this world premiere. The show is directed by Foundry Artistic Director Melanie Joseph.
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"Acting is about subtlety," says Moll Cutpurse, the title character of Alice Tuan's adaptation of The Roaring Girle. If only the current production of the play, produced by the Foundry Theatre, heeded this advice. Instead, director Melanie Joseph seems to have encouraged her cast to portray their characters in extremely broad strokes: The actors often screech their lines, overplay the physicality of their roles, and baldly pander to the audience.
The Roaring Girle is loosely based upon the Jacobean play of the same title by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker. Tuan has kept several of the characters, the central romantic plotline, and even a few of Middleton and Dekker's lines. In her versi[...]