The Changeling Written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley Directed by Jesse Berger Red Bull Theater at the Lucille Nortel Theatre, NYC December 26, 2015-January 24, 2016
Ushering in the New Year, Red Bull Theater brings us a tragic tale of sex in payment for murder. Jesse Berger sure-handedly directs Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's 1622 tragicomedy The Changeling, the main plot of which introduces the noble Beatrice-Joanna (Sara Topham) as she finds a "giddy turning" in herself from Alonzo de Piracqo (John Skelley), to whom her father, Vermandero (Sam Tsoutsouvas), intends her to be married, towards Alsemero (Christian Coulson). In order to "change [her] saint," she eventually enlists the aid of her father's servant De Flores (Manoel Feliciano), whom she professes to abhor and whose skin condition suggests a spatter of blood across his face, to remove the obstacle that is Alonzo.
The changeling of the title can refer to the inconstant Beatrice-Joanna herself,...
Ushering in the New Year, Red Bull Theater brings us a tragic tale of sex in payment for murder. Jesse Berger sure-handedly directs Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's 1622 tragicomedy The Changeling, the main plot of which introduces the noble Beatrice-Joanna (Sara Topham) as she finds a "giddy turning" in herself from Alonzo de Piracqo (John Skelley), to whom her father, Vermandero (Sam Tsoutsouvas), intends her to be married, towards Alsemero (Christian Coulson). In order to "change [her] saint," she eventually enlists the aid of her father's servant De Flores (Manoel Feliciano), whom she professes to abhor and whose skin condition suggests a spatter of blood across his face, to remove the obstacle that is Alonzo.
The changeling of the title can refer to the inconstant Beatrice-Joanna herself,...
- 1/18/2016
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
The Changeling, a 17th-century play by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, gets a very modern twist in our new film, made in collaboration with the Guardian and the Young Vic
Warning: film contains adult themes
A "bed trick" is a convention in Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre: a plot twist in which someone goes into a sexual liaison with someone else, but sneaks off after the lights have gone out, allowing someone different to sneak into their place. This is a very weird concept to us, perhaps a shocking one, but it's present in a lot of plays: Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy, and The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, which I directed at the Young Vic in London last year. When I was working on the play, it struck me as a bizarre and interesting idea, and that was one of the things that influenced...
Warning: film contains adult themes
A "bed trick" is a convention in Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre: a plot twist in which someone goes into a sexual liaison with someone else, but sneaks off after the lights have gone out, allowing someone different to sneak into their place. This is a very weird concept to us, perhaps a shocking one, but it's present in a lot of plays: Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy, and The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, which I directed at the Young Vic in London last year. When I was working on the play, it struck me as a bizarre and interesting idea, and that was one of the things that influenced...
- 5/16/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
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