The Duchess (Gemma Arterton) offers Antonio (Alex Waldmann) her wedding ring to cure his bloodshot eye - a ring she vowed never to part with but to her second husband... From Act I, scene 3 of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, performed in our Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
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First performed by the King’s Men - Shakespeare’s own company - ‘privately at the Blackfriars and publicly at the Globe’, The Duchess of Malfi is a thrilling combination of brilliant coups de théâtre, horrific set-pieces and vivid characters - notably the tragic Duchess and the subtly villainous Bosola - all lit by Webster’s obsessional imagination. This most intimate Jacobean tragedy was the ideal curtain-raiser for our first season in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
Gemma Arterton returned to The Globe to play the title role of the Duchess. Gemma made her professional stage debut at the Globe in 2007, when she won huge critical acclaim as Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost.
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6 сен 2024