Performed at the Greenwich Playhouse June 2002

Originally published some fifteen years before the execution of Charles I, Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, is the last of the great plays in the period. Its treatment and central subject of 'incest' has puzzled and divided many over the centuries but remains today as powerful and thought provoking as it was 350 years ago. Glory, Bombast and Pageant exist in the world of Ford's plays. A world where position, power and corruption keep honesty, virtue and love at bay.

CREDITS

• Directed by Bruce Jamieson
• Produced by Alice de Sousa

THE CAST

• Bonaventura - ADAM TABRAHAM
• Giovanni - RYAN CLIFFORD
• Vasques - KEVIN MARCHANT
• Grimaldi - AARON WOODMAN
• Soranzo - ADEN CARDY-BROWN
• Putana - DEIRDRA WHELAN
• Annabella - SIREN TURKESH
• Donado - DANIEL SUNG
• Bergetto - JAMES LEVISON
• Richardetto - DAVID VAUGHAN KNIGHT
• Hippolita - ELEANOR DRAPER

THE CREATIVE TEAM 

• STAGE MANAGER - ELIZABETH BUCKERIDGE
• ASSIST. DESIGNER - ROWAN CARDWELL
• LIGHTING DESIGNER - ROBERT GOOCH
• CHOREOGRAPHER - AMANDA LING
• PRODUCTION DESIGNER - PETER TODD
• STILLS PHOTOGRAPHER - PAUL WELCH

REVIEWS

"This John Ford revival, the second play in Greenwich Playhouse's Jacobean season, exhibits fine direction from Bruce Jamieson which puts the cast in control of their parts to release the story." - Time Out

 

"The Greenwich Playhouse is garnering a solid reputation as a theatre that produces confident revivals of classics from Britain and the continent ... The cast attunes itself to the comedy and the tragedy in Ford's writing with intelligence and vigour" - Evening Standard

"This production boasts a very fine Annabella, a truly sinister Vasques thoroughly enjoying his own wickedness, a burning and furious Soranzo, a highly amusing Bergetto, the sexiest Hippolita I have ever seen and a saintly Bonaventura. The last part is usually played boringly by a bore, so I found this performance a revelation." - www.indielondon.co.uk

 

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