Tuesday, March 8, 2022

The Plays of Aphra Marlowe: Too Sune?

 

 


Too Sune? A Comedy of Mourning ... and Evenings

Elturgard is one of the last places anyone would think to produce a sex comedy, and so of course Elturel’s Skylight Theater was the opening venue Marlowe chose for her merry-widow farce Too Sune? The heroine’s attempts to juggle her lovers and her bereaved in-laws as she arranges her husband’s funeral reveal Marlowe as a master of double entendre and perfectly timed entrances, and it is a great pity that the paladins of Torm not only shut down the production but burned the script in the public square.

 

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