Women Beware Women, by Thomas Middleton at the National Theatre of Great Britain
Women Beware Women
By Thomas Middleton
Olivier Theatre, National Theatre of Great Britain
(Finished on 4 July)
Directed by Marianne Elliott
Cast & Creative
Motiveless malignity. It’s hard to transport one’s mind back far enough to empathize with Jacobean drama, when immorality masqueraded as the It Thing, as if a casual rape was merely the aperitif before fine dining. Today we have summer movies, admittedly, where mass carnage goes down well with popcorn and no harm done. We aren’t frightened or disgusted by how many people the Terminator terminates. Two minutes after leaving the theatre we return to our moral selves. Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women
