'Tis Pity She's A Whore at Duke on 42nd Street from April
Red Bull Theater presents the first major Off-Broadway revival in 20 years of John Ford's controversial Jacobean tragedy 'Tis Pity She's A Whore, directed by Jesse Berger. The limited engagement will officially open on 26 April 2015, following previews from 12 April, at The Duke on 42nd Street.
Synopsis: "What if Romeo and Juliet were brother and sister? This tale of love, lust and hypocrisy is a perverse romantic tragedy. 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." Casting, creative team and performance schedule are yet to be confirmed.
This production of 'Tis Pity She's A Whore was announced as part of Red Bull Theater's 11th season.
"Red Bull Theater is hailed as 'the city's gutsiest classical theater' by Time Out New York, and is a non-profit Off-Broadway theater company specializing in plays of heightened language. With the Jacobean plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries as its cornerstone, Red Bull Theater embraces the imagination of theatergoers through intimate, imaginative productions of great classic stories from all eras and cultures. Red Bull Theater's eleventh season builds upon their unique history and mission to present vital and imaginative renderings of heightened language plays from all eras and cultures as they launch a second decade of sharing great classic stories."
Originally published on