Wilton Follows NT Alba with RSC Women???
Date: 7 March 2005
Aside from the year-long “Complete Works” festival, which will run from April 2006 to April 2007 (See
News, 14 Sep 2004), the Royal Shakespeare Company hasn’t yet announced programming details for next year, but it looks like the repertory will include
Thomas Middleton’s
Women Beware Women. In today’s
20 Questions interview, actress
Penelope Wilton, who opens this month in Lorca’s all-female classic,
The House of Bernarda Alba at the National, reveals that she’ll next be on stage in a production of Middleton’s rarely performed play at the RSC’s Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Written circa 1625 and believed to be one of Middleton’s final tragedies,
Women Beware Women follows two match-makings in which the characters resort to just about anything – including lies, rape and murder – to increase their material wealth; it ends in wholesale slaughter.
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