A King and No King

March 30 – April 23, 2017

In repertory with ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore

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.

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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.

Barbara Johnson, Broadway World