Women Beware Women

In Women Beware Women, Livia’s buried two husbands and doesn’t want a third. Her brother is in love with their niece and the niece has been ordered to marry a fool. Her neighbors are a Duke who likes young, beautiful, married women and an old woman whose son just married a young, beautiful woman. In Middleton’s bloody telenovela of raunchy decadence, erotic depravity and white hot death, the women of Florence know that husband’s die, lover’s betray and friends are false – but what women have to fear the most is what it takes to be a successful woman. Women in classical theatre usually have their pick in life – they can sigh or they can die. The women of modern Chicago have a few more options, but it’s just a different playing field and the game is still rigged. Two Pence’s signature style of dynamic staging coupled with passionate clarity of language peels back the skin on this Chicago premiere 400 years in the making.