Kyd the spanish tragedy6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Unforgettable images of self-mutilation are truly shocking in the Arcola intimacy, with gunshots and screams reverberating and resonating around the cold bare concrete walls.Īn industrial garage door dominates one end of the traverse stage, gliding upwards with a metallic groan to reveal an impromptu play-within-a-play or a bloody rose-strewn tableau of death. There is an intensity and honesty in all the performances that allows the humour to shine forth just as the knife is buried deep into a villainous heart. This is Senecan tragedy meeting high theatrical camp in a uniquely Elizabethan way.ĭirected with passion and fury by Mitchell Moreno, a play which must have seemed, to many, unstageable nonsense comes vibrantly and vividly to life. ![]() Blood oozes and drips, bodies hang like butchered carcases, suicides and murders occur in full view of the audience in a frenzy of revenge and barely-disguised xenophobic glee. The astonishing production by Doublethink Theatre at the Arcola Theatre justifies that success. Written sometime in the 1580s or early 1590s, The Spanish Tragedy was a huge commercial success, with productions staged right up to the closure of the playhouses in 1642. ![]()
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