The Life and Death of King John
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 18, 2011
Closed Oct 2, 2011
Opened Sep 18, 2011
Closed Oct 2, 2011
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An unscrupulous ruling class, a crippling lust for power and ever-shifting allegiances shake the very foundation of society during the troubled 13th Century reign of King John of England. Drama Desk Award-nominee Vince Gatton (The Temperamentals, Candy and Dorothy) leads an ensemble cast onto the battlefield of Shakespeare's rarely performed history play in this new adaptation by Ross Williams. NY Shakespeare Exchange's signature style explores Shakespeare's soaring poetry from two different angles, keeping one foot firmly planted in the blood and guts politics of medieval sovereignty while the other trudges into the celebrity-obsessed quagmire of the 21st Century.
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The two-year-old New York Shakespeare Exchange has made an unlikely choice for its first full staging of a Shakespearean text: The Life and Death of King John, now at the Access Theater.
The play is generally considered to be one of the weakest of the Bard's history plays, but director and adaptor Ross Williams rightly sees in it a vigorous, albeit uneven, story with surprisingly commanding language, sharp humor, and much resonance to our own troubled times.
To his credit, Williams offers a clean yet complete version of the work. The cast of characters has been smartly streamlined. And certain updates -- such as a scene between the Bastard and his mother, which has been transformed into[...]