‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore at Archway Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)

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Archway Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)

Jacobean-era dramatist John Ford’s timeless tragedy meets classic mobster story in this Archway Theatre production of ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore set in the 1930s. Full of intrigue, incest and political machination, Ford’s original 17th century revenge tragedy has many of the elements of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: forbidden love, a meddling nurse, a complicit friar and a tragic, bloody reversal of fortune. But in ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, the star-crossed lovers are actually brother and sister, adding a lurid twist to this poetic, passionate masterpiece. And this unique, mobbed up take on the story, directed by Miranda Stewart, really brings out the incestuous desire, exciting intrigue and bloody murder.

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