Season Archive

The First Look Festival
November 21, November 28, and December 5, 2005
One night only staged readings of rarely seen classics.

The Spanish Tragedy
By Thomas Kyd
Directed by Michael Sexton

Enter the Ghost and with him Revenge." So begins Thomas Kyd's wildly popular play that spawned an entire genre of revenge tragedies. Ghosts, intrigue, betrayal and hot- blooded revenge dominate this masterpiece, which remains one of the most imaginative thrillers of the Elizabethan stage."

Antonio's Revenge
By John Marston
Directed by Daisy Walker

The stage is set for a melancholy prince dressed in black, a vengeful ghost, and a murderous usurper. Sound like Shakespeare's Hamlet? Guess again! It's Marston's masterful tragedy which played at the same time as Shakespeare's Hamlet. Join in the fun at guessing who stole from whom.

The Roman Actor
By Philip Massinger
Directed by John Dias

Starring Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Paris, Rome's greatest actor, has it all: money, success, and the emperor's wife as a lover. But when the Emperor learns of his wife's infidelities he devises a play of his own to co-star in with his rival. It is there, on stage, that Paris learns that in the Emperor's theatre the knives and blood are very, very real.