"Powerful ... idiosyncratic and gut-wrenching" - The Coast
"Precisely directed ... outstanding ... deftly drawn" - Local Xpress
"Excellently choreographed... delightfully ghoulish" - These Words of Mine Blog
CREW
Dan Bray ................................................ Director, Adaptor
Kathryn McCormack ............................. Assistant Director
Tessa Pekeles ......................................... Stage Manager
Olivia Rankin ......................................... Lighting Designer
Karen Bassett ......................................... Fight Director
Patricia Vinluan ...................................... Set Designer
Kelsey Stanger ........................................ Costume Designer
Claire Leger ............................................ Choreographer
Tamsin Robson ..................................... Composer, Musician
Matthew Downey ................................... Design Mentor
Colleen MacIsaac ................................... Production Manager
CAST
Sarah Deller ............................................ Bel-imperia
Rachel Hastings ...................................... Ghost, Pedringano
Colleen MacIsaac ................................... Lorenzo
Leah Pritchard ........................................ Balthazar
Madeleine Tench .................................... Revenge, Horatio
Katherine Tufts ....................................... Hieronimo
Over the past six years, The Villain’s Theatre has brought you such revenge tragedies as The Duchess of Malfi, The Revenger’s Tragedy, and Women Beware Women– yet no play has affected all of western drama quite so much as this, the first of its kind: The Spanish Tragedy. A cautionary tale gone wrong, it is a story about the nature of justice, the swiftness of fate, and the price of allegiance.
Told with an unhealthy dose of pitch-black humour and some of the period’s most stark and jarring text, this NEW adaptation of Thomas Kyd’s seminal drama will feature a cast of six powerful female performers and will see the Bus Stop Theatre transformed into a hive of evil.
Triunfo Espagna!