Staging The Duchess of Malfi at the
Shakespeare Theatre

The following information has been recollected from the Shakespeare Theatre:

The Duchess of Malfi

directed by Michael Kahn

DATES: January 22 through March 10, 2002

Press Night: Sunday, January 27, 2002

Opening Night: Monday, January 28, 2002

LOCATION: The Shakespeare Theatre, 450 7th Street NW, between D and E Streets, just off Pennsylvania Avenue, between the Capitol and the White House:

450 7th Street NW Washington, DC 20004-2201

TIMES: Tuesdays at 7:30 pm (except January 29); Wednesdays at 7:30 pm; Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, Sundays at 7:30 pm (except March 10), matinees on Saturdays and Sundays at 2 pm (except January 27), matinee at 12 noon on March 6.

Run time: 2 hours and 45 minutes, with one intermission.

ABOUT THE PLAY: Ambition and treachery overcome familial bonds when a noblewoman marries for love, denying her two brothers further control over her and her wealth. The brothers' savage determination to regain their sister’s property leads them into a downward spiral towards the depths of inhumanity. Drenched in the passion, intrigue and violence celebrated by the Jacobeans, The Duchess of Malfi is an intensive study of the consequences of sin and the triumph of revenge, not redemption. Michael Kahn will direct Shakespeare Theatre performer and acclaimed stage and film actress Kelly McGillis, last seen as the selfish Lavinia Mannon in Kahn’s 1997 Mourning Becomes Electra, who will play the misbeloved Duchess.