The Duchess of Malfi

by John Webster

Red Bull Theater at St. Clement’s

Jesse Berger, Director

2010

TOP OF SHOW

Matthew Greer, Christina Rouner,Carol Halstead, and Matthew Rauch

CURTAINS FALLING

Christina Rouner and Carol Halstead

END OF SHOW

Christina Rouner and Carol Halstead

END OF SHOW

Matthew Greer and Christina Rouner

“Designer Beowulf Boritt lets us know what we're in for with a smothering set of wall-to-wall red damask draperies that's so over-the-top you can feel the air being sucked out of the house…Very well, actually, once those damask curtains come down and reveal the play's cold steel underpinnings.”

~Marilyn Stasio, Variety

“Crimson fabric shrouds every inch of the set, even the floor, at the start of the new Off-Broadway production of "The Duchess of Malfi." Eventually, that draping is ripped away to reveal the skeletal scaffolding underneath. When it happens, it's not hard to imagine flesh being torn away to expose bare bones.”      

~Joe Dziemianowicz, The Daily News

“One striking and instantaneous change of Beowulf Boritt’s set - from velvet-draped palace to bare iron bars.”     

~Matthew Murray, Talkin’ Broadway