Word: duchessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Duchess of Malfi, currently showing on the Loeb mainstage, is a solid production of an extremely disturbing work. Now, I like to be disturbed--Disability, Escaped, Blue Window and House of Blue Leaves are among the better plays I have seen performed at Harvard--but this went...
...pokes threateningly at a woman's crotch with a knife. In another scene a man straddles a sobbing woman, pinning her to the floor. "You should thank me!" he shouts over and over again as he kisses her violently. A later scene entails a fight between the Duchess and her brother in which the knife is again brought out. First he drags it suggestively in front of her throat. Then he gives it to her explaining that she should kill herself. An argument ensues during which the crying Duchess is held in a choke hold. In the second...
...wasn't good enough for Neil Rudenstine--he cut out at halftime. But this may have been an ominous mistake for the future president of Harvard, because this production of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi deserved to keep most people planted in their seats...
Director Orion Ross, along with producers Hannah Feldman and Thomas M. Lauderdale, made Duchess memorable both in innovation and production quality. The play they so successfully interpreted describes the plight of a young widowed noblewoman, the Duchess (Tanya Selaratnam), whose forbidden relationship with a lower-class man subjects her to the indignation of her brothers...
...work of this "king of painters and painter of kings" attracted every serious patron in Italy and half the military leaders and crowned heads of Europe. The roster of his clients and portrait subjects reads like a list of international society in the 16th century: the Duke and Duchess of Urbino, Alfonso d'Este, Duke Federigo of Mantua, Ippolito de' Medici, several ancient and cunning Popes, doges, admirals, art dealers, intellectuals. Even those who were deadly enemies, like Francis I of France and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, had in common the fact of having been painted by Titian...