I’m producing and starring in a two-person adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece at this year’s Minnesota Fringe Festival. We’ve got three shows left:
Tuesday 8/9 – 10pm
Thursday 8/11 – 5:30pm
Sunday 8/14 – 7:00pm
All performances at the Theatre in the Round.
An intimate, intense, and terrifying adaptation of William Shakespeare’e epic poem. In this dramatic, storytelling staging, the vibrant, staccato beats of the Bard’s eternal verse pound out a tale of erotic savagery and violation.
Lucrece is the sweet and virtuous wife of Colatine. But when Colatine sings her praises to his fellow officers, he lights a blazing lust in the heart of Prince Tarquin. Tarquin flees the army, returns to Rome, enters Lucrece’s home under false pretenses, and in the blackest hours of the night forces himself upon her.
Lucrece’s ordeal, however, is only beginning as Shakespeare vividly captures her bleak and hopeless struggle to cope with unimaginable trauma…
You can visit the American Shakespeare Repertory’s website for my information. You can also listen to a podcast Fringe Mini interview I did with Joshua Humphrey from Twin Cities Theater Connection.
