Live Performance: Lucrece

When one person is obsessed with another person, how far will they go to possess their obsession? This dramatic adaptation of Shakespeare’s narrative poem examines this theme.

Lucrece, an adaptation of The Rape of Lucrece, tells the tale of a ruler’s son setting his sights on an underling’s wife and violating her. The drama is narrated by Brutus, an important noble who worked on establishing the Republic of Rome. Almost the entire play is set inside Lucrece’s bedroom and her house.

Trigger Warning: While Lucrece does not portray the rape itself, it examines in sympathetic detail Lucrece’s state of mind after the rape.