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.