Sly Howard Barker offers 16th century Venice as the setting to provoke 21st century audiences. Rebel female painter Galactia is commissioned by the Doge to paint a vast canvas celebrating a triumphant battle. Yes, there are tensions between personal ambition and moral responsibility seen through the lens of sexual politics. But this play defies expectation (you’ll laugh quite a bit) and how you feel at the end is anyone’s guess.
Note: Oxford Dictionary’s first definition of the word ‘execution’: the act or process of executing; carrying out something in full.
SHOWTIMES
April 5 – 27, 2024 | 7:30pm
LOCATION
Staged at Abiding Missions in the neighborhood of Allentown.
This performance has passed.
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