Theatre: The Duchess of Malfi
Running Time: 2 hours 15 minutes
Webster’s imagery of disease and corrupt power in a High Renaissance Court has taken on an unexpected relevance to our own times.
- Written by John Webster
- Directed by John Buckingham
A rare occurrence for a real-life married couple to appear as husband and wife on stage, but Amy and John Dodero will be playing the doomed Duchess and her lover in Richmond Shakespeare Society’s updated version of John Webster’s acclaimed The Duchess of Malfi at the Mary Wallace Theatre on Twickenham’s Embankment.
The Duchess of Malfi is the best-known Jacobean tragedy by a playwright generally regarded as Shakespeare’s greatest rival. When the recently widowed Duchess elects to take the manager of her household as lover and new husband, thus disobeying her brothers and transgressing class boundaries, she evokes their fury and a terrible process of revenge, murder and infanticide is set in motion.
Join us in this tragedy of passion, betrayal and retribution at the Mary Wallace Theatre on Twickenham’s Riverside from October 23rd - 30th
Tickets are from £12 and can be booked online here
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