Wittenberg
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 20, 2011
Closed Apr 17, 2011
Opened Mar 20, 2011
Closed Apr 17, 2011
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Trouble brews in the hallowed halls of Wittenberg U. circa 1517. Sparring professors, Doctor Faustus and Reverend Martin Luther vie for the allegiance of their star pupil Prince Hamlet, who can't decide on a major (go figure!). While the prince ping-pongs between their contrary advice, the professors debate faith and reason in a zany spin on classic characters. Wittenberg brings the cleric who ignited the Protestant Reformation toe-to-toe with the philosopher whose lust for life just might lead him to sell his soul, in comic combat for the Prince who should be King.
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Hamlet meets a host of characters in Wittenberg, a stimulating history play by David Davalos that is being given a strong production by director J. R. Sullivan and the Pearl Theatre Company at City Center. Some of the author's choices are less dramaturgically sound than others, but this is the rare sort of play that can entertain and make you think.
Davalos has taken an intriguing historical footnote and expanded it into a frequently funny debate over destiny, inspiration, and conscience. In one of history's better jokes, Luther (Chris Mixon), the great religious reformer and theologian, was supposedly teaching at the University of Wittenberg at the same time as Johann Faust (Scott Greer)[...]