The Duchess of Malfi
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 1, 2010
Closed Mar 28, 2010
Opened Mar 1, 2010
Closed Mar 28, 2010
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The Duchess of Malfi is a play for our time as much as it was for Jacobean England, examining the pitfalls inherent in allowing our primal passions to range beyond the bounds of reason - or to be repressed. Red Bull Theater's production of The Duchess of Malfi is the first Off Broadway revival of Webster's masterpiece in over 50 years.
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John Webster's revenge tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, now being presented by the Red Bull Theater at St. Clement's, isn't the easiest kind of Jacobean item to pull off. Sadly, the usually reliable director Jesse Berger hasn't done his usual job of making the play -- in which an aristocratic woman is hounded to death by her brothers for having married against their money-grubbing wishes -- cogent.
Indeed, the ingrained and invasive malevolence called for from the cynical and infuriated depiction of a corrupt court all but completely escapes Berger's treatment of the work. Instead, the play is staged more like censorious comments hurled during shallow 21st-century cocktail parties.
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