Revenge!
No, not on Tribold - that can wait till the rematch.
Saw The Revenger's Tragedy last night, at the National Theatre. Met up with assorted LJ and other people at the theatre.
It's not a play that gets performed very often. Looks back to morality plays, with characters named for chastity (Castiza), vengeance (Vindice) and vice (Lussurioso). But also, to my pop culture-addled mind, to characters like Travis Bickle and Rorschach. Even has elements of farce, as the revenger finds hmself playing three roles (including impersonating himself), and is at one point recruited to be his own murderer. Good writing from Middleton, well performed by the NT. The setting was interesting, with a fast-revolving stage, and a montage at the start giving a good sense of a corrupt and degenerate court (and therefore society). I'm not sure about the odd bits of interpretive dance, or the techno sword-dance at the end, but overall I liked it. The grotesque killing of the Duke that ends the first half of the play was well done, with the revengers' righteous anger mutating into gleeful bloodthirstiness. Unusually for a tragedy, not all the good die unluckily.
Saw The Revenger's Tragedy last night, at the National Theatre. Met up with assorted LJ and other people at the theatre.
It's not a play that gets performed very often. Looks back to morality plays, with characters named for chastity (Castiza), vengeance (Vindice) and vice (Lussurioso). But also, to my pop culture-addled mind, to characters like Travis Bickle and Rorschach. Even has elements of farce, as the revenger finds hmself playing three roles (including impersonating himself), and is at one point recruited to be his own murderer. Good writing from Middleton, well performed by the NT. The setting was interesting, with a fast-revolving stage, and a montage at the start giving a good sense of a corrupt and degenerate court (and therefore society). I'm not sure about the odd bits of interpretive dance, or the techno sword-dance at the end, but overall I liked it. The grotesque killing of the Duke that ends the first half of the play was well done, with the revengers' righteous anger mutating into gleeful bloodthirstiness. Unusually for a tragedy, not all the good die unluckily.