Love Lies a Bleeding
Vee Signorelli and Logan Signorelli Verdoorn
This raunchy, heartfelt Jacobean-era tragicomedy is rife with unresolved sexual tension, secret love, crossdressing, erotic stabbings, civil unrest, and an overly-involved narrator.
Venue: Strike Theater
Tagged For: Comedy, Drama
Content Warnings: Crude Humor, Blood, Violence, Suicidal Ideation/Self-Harm, Sexual Content, Gun/Weapon Usage
Ages 16 and up
Speaking of horny previews…
The preview for this show had one of the funnier, inappropriate and goofy sexualized presentations of CPR that I’ve seen in a while (if that’s a thing that gets you to buy a ticket).
(And no, this is not a staging of the equally horny recent lesbian movie Love Lies Bleeding)
The thing that originally caught my eye was the name Logan Signorelli Verdoorn (I’ve seen and reviewed Logan Verdoorn, pre-Signorelli, in several shows so I’m curious to see his work as a director.)
The full title of the Jacobean tragicomedy being adapted is “Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding” - Philaster being one half of the central couple of the play.
I’ve got a soft spot for Jacobean plays - they’re frequently freaky as hell and dark in a way I don’t find off-putting, with dialogue so out there you wonder how someone dreamed it up (I’m a big fan of Middleton & Rowley’s ‘The Changeling’ - “A woman dipped in blood, and talk of modesty.”)
There’s misunderstandings (betrayals that aren’t really betrayals, etc.) and, just as in the previews, over-the-top melodramatic gestures like stabbing oneself not out of anger but somehow instead out of overwhelming love.
The preview promises that they’re punching up the camp and the comedy, and the queerness, of the play in this adaptation, so it looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun.
Another good reason to get over the Strike Theater for some shows.
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