Mark Taper Forum
135 N Grand Ave
213.628.2772
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Bill Alexander, director of The School of Night
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Oct 30, 2008 – Dec 17, 2008
Tuesdays–Fridays (8pm)
Saturdays (2:30 & 8pm)
Sundays (1 & 6:30pm)
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$24 - 62
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Peter Whelan's latest work, The School of Night, cleverly glides between the modes of traditional murder mystery and avant-garde theatre. As much a history lesson as a guilty-pleasure thriller, the play centers on 16th-century Elizabethan literature and politics, and has a subplot that would make Sherlock Holmes proud. The story revolves around the brutal murder of Christopher Marlowe, a 29-year-old playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare whose death might be a result of his homosexuality, his "free-thinking" affiliations, or possibly his inclination toward pub brawls. Whatever the motive, this is one whodunit where — rest assured — the butler didn't do it.
