Lully: Amadis. (Measured Breaths Theater Company, Gene Frankel Theater, New York, New York)

The Nation | May 11, 1992| | Copyright

Amadis

I don't remember seeing anything at the Public Theater so impressive as its current production of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, directed by the theater's new head, JoAnne Akalaitis. John Ford's revenge tragedy, published in 1633, is a work of gonzo grandeur and anticipates the theories of Artaud by a good three centuries. The horrors that drench the final curtain are of such a magnitude and so subject to tipping over into silliness or triggering protective giggles that one false note could be fatal. The directorial difficulty is compounded by the text's ...

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