Presented by SVA Theatre, The Shakespeare Society, and Red Bull Theater
‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (1980)
BBC Television; 135 minutes
In the 1970s Roland Joffé (best known as the director of the Academy Award-Winning film The Killing Fields) directed some of television’s finest social-realist films, and he applied the approach to this truly remarkable version of John Ford’s drama. A tale of incestuous passion written around 1629 is translated to the early Victorian period and turned to critique the sexual and economic hypocrisies of the 19th century , and of the first years of Thatcherism. Starring Cherie Lunghi, Tim Pigott-Smith, and Kenneth Cranham.
Followed by a discussion with classical theater directors Jesse Berger and Michael Sexton, in conversation with SVA faculty member Mary Lee Grisanti.
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