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Thu Jun 5 - Sun Jul 6

ACT presents

'Tis Pity She's A Whore

Music composed and performed by Bonfire Madigan Shive


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$40
Tickets

Location
Date and Time
American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.)
415 Geary St.
San Francisco, CA 94102 map
cross street: Mason
district: Union Square/San Francisco Centre

Thu Jun 5 (8 pm) - Preview
Fri Jun 6 (8 pm) - Preview
Sat Jun 7 (2 pm and 8 pm) - Previews
Tue Jun 10 (8 pm) - Preview
Wed Jun 11 (8 pm) - Opening Night

Description
This rarely staged Jacobean tragedy pits the hot-blooded violation of a shocking sexual taboo against the dirty machinations of a corrupt church and state. The result is passionate and poetic, violent and sardonic, and a classic that is mordantly fresh. Starring Tony Award–nominated Michael Hayden and A.C.T.'s own René Augesen, winner of a 2007 Bay Area Theatre Critics' Circle Award, and set to the virtuosic, edgy stylings of cellist-singer Bonfire Madigan Shive.

Save $40 on a pair of tickets by ordering online at www.act-sf.org/promotions and entering promotion code TISPITY. Tickets must be purchased by June 11. All tickets subject to availability.


"How could a work with language so nasty and sexual politics so sophisticated have been written almost four centuries ago?"
The New York Times

"Coolly intelligent and as keen and fatal as a stiletto hit to the heart"
The Guardian (London)

"Explosive . . . positively reeking of decadence . . . no-holds-barred emotional intensity"
The Daily Telegraph

"Like a modern-day horror story . . . not for the faint of heart"
Austin American-Statesman

"Ford's shocker is about 375 years old, yet its sex, sadism, and heart-stopping finale feel as
current as a creepy crime-scene TV show."
The Vancouver Sun