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Women Beware Women in Cardiff
Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Friday, May 25, 2007 to Saturday, June 02, 2007
Directed by Martin Houghton
Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women is Romeo and Juilet for grown-ups. It begins pretty much where Shakespeare's vision of breathless adolescent romance ends: with a newly married couple, eloped from Venice, arriving in Florence. The husband's tragic mistake is to go to work. Young, horny Leantio would like to stay at home all day in bed with his bride, Bianca. But he decides to be responsible: "Man loves best/ When his care's most." Husbands get cuckolded when they are away at work, doing their breadwinner duty. It happens even now. The results can be frightening and often very bloody. A tale of lust, deceit and carnage.
This production contains material which is not suitable for persons aged 14 years or younger.
Time: 8:00pm
Admission: £8, £6, £3.50
Venue: Venue 2, The Sherman Theatre - Cardiff
To book tickets, please contact The Sherman Theatre Box Office: Tel. 029 2064 6900
2 comments:
I've always suspected that women in Cardiff were a bit of a problem for women... glad to see someone else thinks so, too.
It's a little known fact that Middleton originally intended to take advantage of long-standing failures of amity among the South Walian sisterhood by setting WBW in Tiger Bay, only to be told by the King's Men that the only boy actor in London capable of sustaining a Welsh accent through five acts of manipulative chess-playing and Juno-impersonating had hit puberty the previous month...
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