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By John Ford
Directed by Melissa Hillman
May 2–June 7 | Thu–Sat 8pm
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We close out our season with the classic slot—but this time it’s John Ford, not Shakespeare: we live up to our “feisty” reputation (San Francisco Chronicle) with our production of Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore. Giovanni and Annabella are in love—trouble is, they're brother and sister. Worse, Annabella becomes pregnant. Trying to conceal the scandal, Annabella marries one of her many suitors, Soranzo, but he discovers that she's already pregnant. Then things really get nasty: revenge, double-crosses, murder. Artistic Director Melissa Hillman directs this down-and-dirty tale of incest and bloodshed.

Ken Bullock of the Berkeley Daily Planet says that our production is "great theatre, suspense, and cruel action that surpass mere melodrama.... Keeping it clear and close to the text, and moving right along, [director Melissa Hillman] gets consistently good performances.... As siblings turned lovers, Marissa Keltie and John Terrell...come through where it counts, with a sense of the transcendental drive Artaud talked about, hellbent and implacable."

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Who's in it?

'Tis Pity features returning Impact actors Miyuki Bierlein (this season’s Money & Run), Sarah Coykendall (Measure for Measure), John Ferreira (Othello, Hamlet), Marissa Keltie (Measure, Othello, Sleepy, Cartoon), Warden Lawlor (Money & Run), John Terrell (Sleepy), and Seth Thygesen (Measure, Money & Run, Sleepy), as well as newcomers Robert Bergin, Mayra Gaeta, Mary Ann Mackey, Kendra Oberhauser, Harold Pierce, Jai Sahai, and Tim Redmond. Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Dave Maier choreographs the fights.

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