“One of my personal favorite house playwrights for Red Bull is actually two playwrights – the much talked about but rarely performed duo of Beaumont & Fletcher, who together quilled some of the most delightful and surprising plays of the Shakespearean era. – Jesse Berger | Artistic Director

A Benefit Reading
A KING AND NO KING
by BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER
Monday, December 14, 2020
7:30 PM EST | LIVESTREAM

Absolute power corrupts absolutely in this delicious Jacobean tragicomedy. Arbaces, the King of Iberia, conquers Tigranes, King of Armenia, and offers him noble treatment – and his sister for a wife. But it’s been awhile since Arbaces has seen his sister. When he does, he is seized with incestuous passion. Arbaces resists this forbidden love with all his might – until she professes she loves him too! But now, what to do about Tigranes?

Alongside the natural pleasures of a surprisingly funny tragedy, A King and No King also offers some particularly piquant allegory for this time of transition from one administration to the next.

Directed by José Zayas, this livestream benefit reading will feature Rajesh Bose, Robert Cuccioli, Edmund Donovan, Franchelle Stewart Dorn, Topher Embrey, Chukwudi Iwuji, Teresa Avia Lim, Cara Ricketts, Socorro Santiago, Reagan Tankersley, Craig Wallace, and CJ Wilson.

This is a LIVE EVENT. This exceptional cast will come together to present the play LIVE from their homes––anything can happen. It will premiere at 7:30 PM EDT on Monday, December 14. A recording of the broadcast will be available until 7:00 PM EDT on Friday, December 18 – then it disappears. GET DETAILS

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