TY - ADVS
T1 - The Duchess (of Malfi)
AU - Harris, Zinnie
N1 - The Duchess [of Malfi]
In a new version by Zinnie Harris after John Webster
A Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and Citizens Theatre co-production.
‘You should know: I sing at parties, I wear colourful dresses, I am headstrong, I won’t wear my hair up because you say I should, or do this because you prefer it, in fact I might do the other just to be contrary, but I am utterly and always myself.’
Webster’s dark tale of bloody treachery is the most thrilling and chilling of the Jacobean revenge tragedies – an exploration of male rage and female resistance as two brothers try and control their sister, block her marriage and repress her agency with fatal results.
Reflecting contemporary debates about female empowerment and the abuse of male power, this bold new interpretation is written and directed by Zinnie Harris. Zinnie has garnered huge critical success for her previous adaptations of The Oresteia: This Restless House, (Citizens Theatre and National Theatre of Scotland) and her more recent versions of Ibsen’s The Master Builder (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Ionesco’s Rhinoceros (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and Edinburgh International Festival and DOT Theatre, Istanbul), which sold out at the Edinburgh International Festival.
★★★★★
"a bloody and brilliant piece of work."
The Herald
★★★★
"slick and streamlined, a towering adaptation"
The Stage
★★★★
"a bloody revenge tragedy made marvellously modern"
The Telegraph
★★★★
"acutely right for our times."
The Times
★★★★
"Kirsty Stuart’s duchess provides a defiant centre"
The Guardian
★★★★
"a dream never imagined by Webster"
The Scotsman
PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - A new version of Webster's play, produced by the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh in May - June 2019 and at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow in September 2019. Zinnie Harris directed the production.
AB - A new version of Webster's play, produced by the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh in May - June 2019 and at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow in September 2019. Zinnie Harris directed the production.
UR - https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/theatre-and-stage/theatre-review-duchess-malfi-royal-lyceum-edinburgh-1416787
UR - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/may/22/the-duchess-of-malfi-review-zinnie-harris-royal-lyceum-edinburgh
UR - https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/the-duchess-of-malfi-review-at-the-royal-lyceum-theatre-edinburgh--slick-and-streamlined-a-towering-adaptation
M3 - Performance
ER -