'Tis Pity She's a Whore

Synopsis

The course of true love never did run smooth - Giovanni and Annabella love each other deeply but there is a barrier between them that means that they can never be together - for that would be incest. A rollercoaster ride of desire and turmoil with an unforgettable finale.

Our Review:

7 February 2012

Love, passion, sex and amorality; these are the themes explored in Ford's play. Like Nick Ormerod's set, where Christ's image is consigned to a small postcard on a wardrobe whilst the walls promote stories of forbidden and doomed love, so this tale examines what happens when passion, not morality, rules the protagonists and the inevitable tragedy that follows.

Annabella and Giovanni are passionately in love; they are also brother and sister. Defying the laws which prevent them from consummating their love, they set in motion a chain of events which ultimately lead to tragedy. Ford's play, in the hands of Cheek by Jowl, is an uncomfortable experience. The bordello red set, with a double bed at its centre, leaves no question that this is a tale steeped in sin and depravity. Our first look at Annabella sees her sitting on her bed, listening to her headphones like any typical teenager but, once the play proper starts she stands to reveal a black lace clad coquette whose provocative ...

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