'Tis Pity She's a Whore
About the show
A perverse Jacobean romantic tragedy about love, lust, incest and hypocrisy. More…
What if Romeo and Juliet were brother and sister? Siblings Annabella and Giovanni fall into an incestuous affair with a brutal velocity that sets Renaissance Parma aflame with its passionate force. Defiant in their desires to the bloody end, these lovers take “star-crossed” into a whole new galaxy. This crown jewel of Jacobean drama has scandalized and enthralled audiences for four centuries with its singular journey through the fires of desire.
See it if you can stomach Jacobean tragedy, which is not for wimps. Everybody loses (which is not unlike IRL). Well-staged and well-acted. Unsettling.
Don't see it if you're put off by the premise (sibling incest..if only Jake and Maggie had been cast). Crazy fun to see the fall-out of the forbidden act.
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See it if You love classic theater and want to see a good staging of a rarely seen work.
Don't see it if You don't like classical theater or language whatsoever.
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