The Revenger’s Tragedy
“Fluidity and ferocious grace”
La Repubblica
The
Revenger’s
Tragedy
“Fluidity and ferocious grace”
La Repubblica
Written by Thomas Middleton
Performed in Italian with surtitles
Running time approximately 2 hours with no interval
2018 –
For their first Italian production, Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod chose The Revenger’s Tragedy by the Jacobean playwright Thomas Middleton. Intrigue, corruption, lust, narcissism and the thirst for power collide in a 17th century Italian court which seems strangely contemporary.
Seeking revenge at any cost for the murder of his fiancée, Vindice is drawn into a terrible helter-skelter of punishment which puts his very identity in crisis.
Produced by Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa, co-produced by Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione in collaboration with Cheek by Jowl.
We are grateful to the Italian Cultural Institute for their contribution to The Revenger’s Tragedy in London.
Name | Character |
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Marco Brinzi | Lussurioso |
Fausto Cabra | Vindice |
Flavio Capuzzo Dolcetta | Junior |
Martin Chishimba | Jailer |
Christian Di Filippo | Supervacuo |
Raffaele Esposito | Ippolito |
Ruggero Franceschini | Bishop |
Errico Liguori | Spurio |
Lucia Limonta | The Duchess |
Marta Malvestiti | Castiza |
David Meden | Ambitioso |
Massimiliano Speziani | The Duke |
Emilia Tiburzi | Doctor |
Beatrice Verzotti | Gratiana |
Marouane Zotti | Judge |
Name | Character |
---|---|
Ivan Alovisio | Lussurioso |
Alessandro Bandini | Junior |
Marco Brinzi | Judge |
Fausto Cabra | Vindice |
Martin Chishimba | Jailer |
Christian Di Filippo | Supervacuo |
Raffaele Esposito | Ippolito |
Ruggero Franceschini | Bishop |
Pia Lanciotti | The Duchess/Gratiana |
Errico Liguori | Spurio |
Marta Malvestiti | Castiza |
David Meden | Ambitioso |
Massimiliano Speziani | The Duke |
Beatrice Vecchione | Doctor |
Role | Name |
---|---|
Director | Declan Donnellan |
Designer | Nick Ormerod |
Italian version | Stefano Massini |
Lighting | Judith Greenwood, Claudio De Pace |
Music | Gianluca Misiti |
Assistant Director | Francesco Bianchi |
Movement | Alessio Maria Romano |
Date | Location |
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21-27 May 2021 | Worldwide, Film Version Release from Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Italy |
4-7 March 2020 | London, Barbican, UK |
22 February 2020 | Milan, Piccolo Teatro, Italy |
29-30 June 2019 | Saint Petersburg, Theatre Olympics, Russia |
7–8 February 2019 | Pordenone, Teatro Verdi, Italy |
22 January–2 February 2019 | Rome, Teatro Argentina (Teatro di Roma), Italy |
17–20 January 2019 | Modena, ERT Teatro Storchi, Italy |
10–13 January 2019 | Bologna, ERT Arena del Sole, Italy |
12–16 December 2018 | Florence, Teatro della Pergola, Italy |
4–6 December 2018 | Pavia, Teatro Fraschini, Italy |
29–30 November 2018 | Lugano, Lugano LAC, Switzerland |
20–25 November 2018 | Turin, Teatro Stabile, Italy |
10 October –16 November 2018 | Milan, Piccolo Teatro, Italy |
Date | Location |
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2020-21 | Milan, Piccolo Teatro, Italy |
2020-21 | Sceaux, Les Gémeaux, Paris, France |
2020 | Madrid, Centro Dramático Nacional, Spain |
“A blackly comical delight… This elegantly perverse, beautifully barbed evening is a big success.”
The Times
“A bravura staging.”
Telegraph
“A bold, uproarious, unabashed, sexy extravaganza of power and corruption… The company is enthralling.”
Telegraph
“The Piccolo has achieved an outstanding result, and one at an international level. Donnellan is a magical director and a master of movement and action. The actors embody the absolute fusion of mind and body, full of life and giving life.”
Avvenire
“Donnellan embraces the language of Theatre in its entirety, a theatre which transcends speech and becomes breath and movement.”
Due Righe
“Donnellan’s powerful production allows the shadows of Strehler and Ronconi to vanish from the Piccolo.”
Corriere della Sera
“Delivered with fluidity and ferocious grace’, ‘a clear vision playing with contrasts, highlighting the dark opulence of his multi-personality imagination’, ‘Donnellan knows how to read the classics in the spirit of the times while never constraining them”
La Repubblica
“Dextrous interweaving of satire and tragedy’, ‘Magnificent direction with exceptional design, lighting, costumes and actors”
Il Giornale
“Declan Donnellan reveals this lavish, decadent, perverse world in a frenetic astonishing dance.”
La Lettura/Corriere della Sera
“Donnellan recognises the eternity of feelings and desires, and imbues his actors with extraordinary freedom.”
Cult Week
“Donnellan has created a production of unusual lightness, a ferocious comedy always surging forward. The Revenger’s tragedy, for all its imagery and elegance, is destined to mature in the imagination and return to haunt us with its elegance, refinement and thoughtfulness.”
Sipario
“A brilliant production, Donnellan knows how to play Middleton’s wit in a contemporary key, fresh and with veiled references to our society.”
Milano Free
“Donnellan magnificently conveys 17th Century English theatre to a contemporary audience”
Milano Teatri
“A breath of fresh air for Milanese theatre.”
Saltinaria.it
“The Revenger’s tragedy is astounding. Go and see it, because in the midst of the cutting irony, you will touch on limits of vice and perversity which only the human race is capable of crossing. Now and as it was then, century after century.”
cahierdesarts.com
“Dextrous interweaving of satire and tragedy”
Il Giornale