“After Cardenio”, written and directed by Jane Taylor (Ubu and the Truth Commission), in collaboration with Gavin Younge, Aja Marneweck and Paper Body Collective, is an imagined reworking of the historically archived “missing” play, Cardenio, one of the last pieces Shakespeare wrote. The play was apparently based on an episode involving the character “Cardenio” from Cervantes’ “Don Quixote”.

“After Cardenio” stages a seventeenth-century anatomy, and takes place in an operating theatre. The structure of the piece arises from a seventeenth century broadside confessional text about a young woman who is hanged for murdering her baby, is given over for an anatomy, and who comes back to life while on the operating table. The work is a combination of historical archive and fiction, contemporary and archaic incident. Acclaimed artist Gavin Younge has made a life-size puppet sculpture for the piece.

After Cardenio has been commissioned by Renaissance scholar Stephen Greenblatt.

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One comment on ‘After Cardenio’

1. Susan Stougie says:

   September 4, 2011 at 7:49 pm

   An excellent show.
   The puppetry was beautiful.The characters very well portrayed and the voices good and clear, especially Marty Kintu.
   It was a very interesting presentation.
   Thank you

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