Laodamia: Queen of Epirus
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Opened Mar 2, 2000
Closed Mar 26, 2000
Opened Mar 2, 2000
Closed Mar 26, 2000
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The Looking Glass Theater, Inc. presents Catherine Bernard's LAODAMIA: QUEEN OF EPIRUS. Written in 1689, it was the first full-length play written by a woman to be produced by the Comedie Francaise in Paris. This story of a queen's choice between her passion for a man and love for her sister ran in repertory for two successful years. Director Judith Lambert's staging translates the psychological boundaries of this intriguing political romance into actual geography on stage creating a world in which emotions are politicized and a flicker of passion can determine the fate of a nation.
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Editor's note: The following is an open letter to Justine Lambert, director of Laodamia: Queen of Epirus now playing at the Looking Glass Theatre, from TheaterMania reviewer John DeVore.
Dear Ms. Lambert,
I spent the weekend considering the reasons the Looking Glass Theatre's production of Laodamia: Queen of Epirus worked, and why it didn't. Although Shakespeare seems to be in a perpetual state of popularity, it is still no easy task to engage a contemporary audience with classical texts. But with your agile and talented cast, you discovered and sucked the passionate marrow of what otherwise might have been a dead bone of an obscure 17th century play.
Without offering forced, exter[...]