Rudolf II
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 5, 2010
Closed Mar 28, 2010
Opened Mar 5, 2010
Closed Mar 28, 2010
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Rudolf II is the story of a bisexual, bipolar emperor in 1600 Prague obsessed with alchemy, astronomy, his longtime mistress, and his newest lover and valet, a converted Jew. The production uses the vast expanse of the Bohemian National Hall to create an environmental production in the center of its ballroom space, with live choral singing from the balconies accompanying the action.
Set completely in Rudolf's bedroom, the play is a portrait of an emperor who was both extraordinary visionary and self-destructive, as he confines himself and those closest to him to an increasingly suffocating atmosphere of paranoia and mounting madness. Rudolf's court is literally the stuff of legend--the golem supposedly originated there, and Goethe based his Faust upon the court as well. The play features Tycho Brahe, the famed astronomer; Elizabeth Jane Weston, the Latin poetess and daughter of the original Faust (Edward Kelley); and the spirit of Libuse, the prophetess who founded Prague.
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The pitfall of many plays based on the lives of historical figures is that they leave out the powerful parts and focus primarily on the flaws. Unfortunately, Edward Einhorn's Rudolf II, now at the Bohemian National Hall, is such a work.
Yes, this colorful member of the Habsburg dynasty at the turn of the 17th Century was a victim of violent mood swings who, apparently, shut himself up in his bedroom for days at a time. Yes, this unmarried monarch had multiple lovers, possibly of both genders. And, yes, there's strong evidence that he was an exotic spendthrift. But he was also the Holy Roman Emperor for more than three decades, someone who made epic attempts to unify his empire and was not[...]