Dark Lady Players present Shakespeare’s Gospel Parodies: A Medieval Mystery Tour
UPDATE: Read the review at nytheatre.com
Dark Lady Players is pleased to present Shakespeare’s Gospel Parodies: A Medieval Mystery Tour. The Tour runs Sunday, September 11th to Sunday, September 25th at West-Park Church, Amsterdam Avenue and 86th Street.The performances run Sundays at 4:00pm and Mondays and Tuesdays at 7:00pm. Admission is FREE for all performances.
Shakespeare’s Gospel Parodies: A Medieval Mystery Tour puts a modern twist on
the Medieval Mystery Play Cycle with a “Living Museum” performance that mixes live
actors with supporting dramaturgy via YouTube and self-guided tours available with
WiFi so keep your phones on! Audience members can chose to follow one of the three
docents or to wander from one scene to another by themselves using the YouTube
explanations over wi-fi.
The Shakespeare plays contain 14 resurrections, 12 Apocalypses, 5 Virgin Mary
Allegories, 3,000 additional religious references, a variety of Christ figures and were written using 14 different translations of the Bible. And yet none of the plays end in Paradise. Why do the Marys (Juliet, Ophelia, Desdemona) die before giving birth to the savior? Why are the Messiah figures (Laertes, Shylock, Bottom/Pyramus) defeated? Why is Hamlet an anti-Christ who compares his mother to the Whore of Babylon? Could the Shakespeare Gospel Allegories be not the work of a devoted Christian, but Satires? Could the foundational texts of Western drama question the validity of its literature? Jointhe Dark Lady Players as they explore these questions and their possible solutions.
Tickets are going fast. This Sunday September 18th is nearly sold out. RSVP to darkladyplayers@aol.com if you want to attend the remaining performances on 18 and 19 September at 7pm and at 4pm on Sunday 25th September. More details are at
http://www.darkladyplayers.com/gospel.htm