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To be confirmed.
Performance dates
17 February 2024 - 14 April 2024
Run time: To be confirmed.
Includes interval
4 reviews
The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse season returns in February 2024 to London's prestigious indoor candlelit theatre with John Webster's influential revenge tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, ten years after its initial opening in 2014. A story of passion, betrayal and vengeance, The Duchess of Malfi fellows the defiant Duchess as she navigates her own desires in a hostile society…book your tickets now!
Illicit marriages, secret families, deception and lies…
Following the death of her husband, The Duchess discovers herself caught up in a frowned-upon love with her steward Antonio. Meanwhile, her controlling brothers are determined to keep her firmly under their control, so advise against her remarrying, but the Duchess is prepared to fight (and even lie) for her own freedom. In a society ruled by men and their rigid norms, The Duchess must battle to defend all she loves, whilst the men in her life are desperate to control her destiny and seize her fortune, and will turn to extreme measures to do so.
With this groundbreaking anniversary production of Webster's violent tale of misogyny and deceit, award-winning director Rachel Bagshaw (Midnight Movie, Royal Court), makes her Globe directing debut!
The Duchess portrays a society in which women's agency is severely limited and demonstrates the lengths people will go to in order to exert control over them. Book your tickets for this powerful production now!
WATCH ALL THE ACTION FROM THE PRESS NIGHT OF THE DUCHESS OF MALFI AT THE OLD VIC THEATRE. RUNNING UNTIL 9TH JUNE, 2012.
13 Apr, 2012 | By London Theatre Direct
Continuing Jermyn Street Theatre’s burgeoning reputation for rediscovering and staging high quality revivals of lost work featuring some of the most respected performers in British theatre , this Spring sees a rare production of Charles Dyer’s modern masterpiece Mother Adam starring Linda Marlowe and Jasper Britton.
11 Apr, 2012 | By London Theatre Direct
Currently a hit on the other side of the pond in US dark comedy tv show Nurse Jackie, Eve Best is back treading the boards next year at The Old Vic Theatre in the John Webster play The Duchess of Malfi. The production previews from 17th March with Press Night on 28th March and will run until 8th June.
8 Dec, 2011 | By London Theatre Direct