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The Love of the Nightingale
by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Directed by Luke Dennis
May 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, & 29, 2004, at 8 pm
May 23 at 2 pm Abbott Theatre, 9 Spring Street, Waltham, MA |
Directed by Luke Dennis The Love of the Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker is a contemporary reworking of the ancient Greek myth of Philomele, a vibrant, inquisitive Athenian princess whose questions are answered by silence and who is soon violently silenced herself, by her brother-in-law, the King of Thrace. Her chilling revenge, five years later during an evening of Dionysian revelry, is simply astonishing. A story of the power of words and the price of silence, The Love of the Nightingale is written in exultant modern prose that has the resonance of myth by a playwright who is as interesting and surprising as her name. The CastDorothy Ahle: Echo, Niobe, Nurse The CrewJeremy Medicus:
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