Royal Shakespeare Company's 'Rape of Lucrece' January 31, 2013

“Less like a performance, more like an inhabitation or haunting” The Guardian

“A triumph, strange and gripping and honest.” The Times
“In Irish chanteuse Camille O’Sullivan’s vivid rendering of Shakespeare’s poem....the Royal Shakespeare Company, under whose banner Elizabeth Freestone’s production falls, has struck gold.”
 The Glasgow Herald
The Royal Shakespeare Company presents Shakespeare's beautiful, politically charged, sexually provocative and violent poem, The Rape of Lucrece for a strictly limited Melbourne season at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner, from 31 January to 10 February directly after the Sydney Festival season.
This one-woman production stars internationally acclaimed Irish chanteuse Camille O’Sullivan who inhabits the roles of Tarquin and Lucrece, narrating both of their fates through a mesmerising fusion of storytelling and song. Camille is accompanied on stage, by pianist and long time collaborator Feargal Murray.
This rarely performed tragedy was a hit at the 2012 Edinburgh International Festival, winning a prestigious Bank of Scotland Herald Angel Award for outstanding performances. O’Sullivan’s unique take on these rarely heard words of Shakespeare, reveals the poem as the beautiful monster it is.
This Royal Shakespeare Company production directed by Elizabeth Freestone, features original music co-written by Feargal Murray and Camille O’Sullivan.