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Gertrude - The Cry
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at 2:00PM

The 16th Street Theater
330 W. 16th Street
New York, NY 10011


GERTRUDE - THE CRY is Howard Barker's startling and revealing response to Hamlet. This entirely new story exposes the sexual nature of the crime at the heart of Shakespeare's play. Powerful poetic language, provocative ideas and rich, dark humor build a compelling and erotic study of the sexuality and secrecy that seethe below the surface of Hamlet. Gertrude swells with a passion that counters all morality. The play explores a favorite Barker theme – the lust for individuation – for freedom from the oppression of licensed behavior. In this new world of Elsinore, Howard Barker defends Hamlet's reviled mother and her adulterous affair with Claudius, depicting them as lovers driven beyond reason.