The Knight of the Burning Pestle

About This Show

A joyful celebration of the universal capacity to improvise, this delightful Elizabethan comedy is a rough and rowdy romp. As a group of players gathers to present a play about the elopement of star-crossed lovers, they are abruptly interrupted by a grocer and his wife. They have a different kind of play in mind–an outrageous hero’s quest of derring-do…The Knight of the Burning Pestle. And they know just the fellow to star–their apprentice, Rafe. This new subplot–invented on the fly–takes over the stage in surprising and disruptive ways. Everyone shares in the triumph of love and the singular, anything-can-happen adventure that is live theater.

Show Details

Running Time: 2hr 15min (1 intermission)
Dates: First Preview: April 17, 2023 Opening Night: April 27, 2023 Final Performance: May 13, 2023

Theatermania Review

| | April 27, 2023
Francis Beaumont’s rarely seen comedy is now running at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

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