By the time touring troupe Cheek by Jowl bring their new version of John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore to the UK – it is currently darkening summery Sydney – the theatrical murder rate in London will have notched up still further. In recent years, the National Theatre has hosted two more Middletons ( The Revenger's Tragedy and Women Beware Women), then, last summer, Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness, which despite its domestic setting became, in Katie Mitchell's fiercely precise production, every bit as intense. The Changeling opens in late January, to be followed a month later by John Webster's brilliant – and brilliantly chilling – The Duchess of Malfi, which opens just up the road at the Old Vic. And it seems we can't get enough of them. "Murder, I see, is followed by more sins."Īlthough it is four centuries since revenge tragedies like this first appeared on stage, they have lost little of their charge. "Vengeance begins," the woman mutters, ominously, later on.
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