Word: leantio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Women Beware Women opens with the recent nuptials of Leantio (Fred Hood '02) and his new bride Bianca (Annalise Nelson '02). Unfortunately, in the third week of their marriage, Bianca is seen by the lascivious Duke of Florence (Dan Hughes '01), who then orchestrates a meeting and rapes her. This spirals into an extremely complicated plot mired in incest, murder...
...Sparkling performances are given by James Mangwi '00 as the disapproving, moralizing brother of the Duke, and Stian Westlake (GSAS) as Hippolito, who delivers his lines with suitably lovelorn anguish (and has the crazy hair to match his moods). Hood's performance as Leantio is also quite compelling, and does well in engendering the audience's sympathy, as does the idiotic ward, Bill Maskiell '02, who induces a different kind of sympathy altogether...
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