Scenes From An Execution
at Lyttelton Theatre, National
Tickets for Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution in London can be booked here. Scenes from an Execution is about Venice in the sixteenth-century!
Commissioned to paint a vast canvas celebrating the triumphant Battle of Lepanto, the free-spirited Galactia creates instead a breathtaking scene of war-torn carnage. In her fierce determination to stay true to herself, she alienates the authorities and faces incarceration. Her younger lover Carpeta is approached to take over and seizes the assignment for himself.
Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution makes sixteenth-century Venice the setting for a fearless exploration of sexual politics and the timeless tension between personal ambition and moral responsibility, between the patron's demands and the artist's autonomy.
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Lyttelton Theatre, National
South Bank
London
SE1 9PX
Evening
Monday to Saturday 7.30pm
Matinee
Thursday and Saturday 2.15pm and Sunday 3pm
Booking from
2012-11-30
Booking until
2012-12-09
Running Time:
2 hours 35 minutes
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