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Women Beware Women

In the Italian court, where wealth secures power and power serves lust, the lascivious Duke can play wherever he chooses. He catches the eye of another's exquisite bride, Bianca. Can a glance secure her fate, a bribe appease her husband?

Isabella's father would marry her off to a rich young idiot, while Hippolito has won her trust and desires her truly. But he's her uncle. These are her choices. If twice-widowed Livia conspires against her sex to gain a little clout, she's only fighting to survive.

Corruption will not go unpunished in Thomas Middleton's blackly funny, fast and ferocious tragedy.

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South Bank, London SE1 9PX	Theatre Information
National Theatre The Royal National Theatre, London, is generally known as The National Theatre. It is located on the South Bank of The River Thames in the London Borough of Lambeth, immediately east of the southern end of Waterloo Bridge. The National Theatre's building was designed by architect Sir Denys Lasdun and its theatres opened individually between 1976 and 1977. In the years from 1963, before the company's permanent home on the South Bank was completed, the National Theatre Company was based at the Old Vic theatre in Waterloo. Since 1988, the Theatre has been permitted to call itself the Royal National Theatre, but the full title is rarely used. The theatre presents a varied programme, including Shakespeare, international classic dram and new plays by contemporary playwrights. Each auditorium in the theatre can run up to three shows in repertoire or repertory, thus further widening the number of plays which can be put on during any one season. Olivier Theatre The Olivier - named after Laurence Olivier, the first director of the National Theatre (during its years at the Old Vic), is the largest of the three theatres at the National. Situated above the entrance foyer and over the workshops and main rehearsal rooms, it can accommodate 1150 people in its fan-shaped auditorium, with drama on its open stage. Two main tiers of steeply raked seats - flanked by side-banks on a higher level - sweep down to the stage. In spite of its size, the Olivier has a concentrated intimacy. No seat is far from an actor's point of command. The Lyttelton Theatre The Lyttelton - named after Oliver Lyttelton, Viscount Chandos, whose parents were among the earliest campaigners for the National Theatre and who was himself its first chairman. There are no eye-blocking pillars, circle rails, or other familiar hazards and you can see and hear almost equally well from each of its 890 seats. Unlike most traditional theatres, the Lyttelton has an adjustable proscenium. You can make it into an open-end stage; add a forestage; or create an orchestra pit for up to 20 musicians. Cottesloe Theatre The Cottesloe - named after Lord Cottesloe, chairman of the South Bank Board (the body responsible for the construction of the National) - is the smallest, the barest, the most potentially flexible and (for some people) the most potentially influential of the National houses. It is a dark-walled rectangular room, which can hold up to 300 people. On three sides of the room two tiers of pillared galleries look down on an adjustable floor-space which has no fixed seating or staging. This National cockpit may be used for classical staging, for the latest experimental theatre, or for practically anything in between. You can stage an event at one end with or without a proscenium, in a corner, or in the centre. Everything is open to change except the galleries, which are reminiscent of the inn-yards that preceded Shakespeare's stages. The seating in the Cottesloe is not quite as comfortable as in the Olivier and Lyttelton theatres, being portable and with no armrests. The seats in the galleries have restricted views.

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