Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8pm
Saturday at 3pm
Sunday at 2pm and 7pm
The Brave Spirits repertory continues the 2016-2017 season’s theme of dangerous love, with two couples defying the greatest of all taboos: the fact that they are brother and sister. In both plays, incestuous passion threatens to overcome reason, but to very different results. BST is excited to pair Ford’s gruesome tragedy with Beaumont and Fletcher’s rarely performed tragicomedy. Recommended for ages 13 and above.
The Lab at Convergence
1819 N. Quaker Lane Alexandria, VA 22302
2 hours and 10 minutes, including intermission
Cast
Jenna Berk Ligones / Ensemble Danny Cackley Ensemble Gary DuBreuil Tigranes Rebecca Ellis Arane / Ensemble
Erik Harrison Bacurius / Ensemble Lisa Hill-Corley Ensemble Brendan Kennedy Arbaces Briana Manente Mardonius
Darren Marquardt Gobrius Ian Blackwell Rogers Bessus Alison Talvacchio Spaconia / Ensemble Kathryn Zoerb Panthea / Ensemble
Production Team
Cassie Ash Director Jason Aufdem-Brinke Lighting Designer
Casey Kaleba Fight Director
Claire Kimball Dramaturg
Leila Spolter Set Designer Adalia Tonneyck Costume Designer
Brimming with sensationalistic material — with plotlines that touch not only on incest, but also conspiracies, betrayals, disguises, political corruption and shocking violence — the plays are striking and suspenseful.
Celia Wren, The Washington Post
Turns out I needed a heat wrap for the sore muscles in my belly after seeing this Beaumont and Fletcher masterpiece. The two playwrights individually and collaboratively wrote exquisitely poetical verse, but Brave Spirits Resident Dramaturg Ash’s direction homes in on their script’s comic lines to deliver zinger after zinger.
Eric Minton, Shakespeareances.com
Brave Spirits Theatre’s skillful production of A King and No King has many charms so take advantage of this rare opportunity to see one of the better examples of early modern English theatre this side of Shakespeare.
Steven McKnight, DC Theatre Scene
The proceedings are peppered with amusing Shakespearean scenes testing out faulty logic and exploring paradoxes. Actors spout Jacobean era verses as freshly as if they were 140-character tweets.