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Florence, circa 1482. Playboy Sandro Botticelli has it all: talent, fame, good looks. He also has the ear - and the wife - of Lorenzo de Medici, as well as the Renaissance's hottest young apprentice, Leonardo. But whilst he is at work on his breakthrough commission, ?The Birth of Venus', Botticelli's devotion to pleasure and beauty is put to the ultimate test. As plague and dissent sweep through the city, the charismatic friar Girolamo Savonarola starts to stoke the fires against the liberal elite. Botticelli finds the life he knows breaking terrifyingly apart, forcing him to choose between love and survival. Jordan Tannahill's hot-blooded and seductive reimagining of Renaissance Italy questions how much of ourselves we are willing to sacrifice when society comes off the rails.

Creatives/Company

Author: Jordan Tannahill

What's On By Year ...

Archive listings for Botticelli's in the Fire (2019)

Work type: Play.

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UK Premiere.Producer Hampstead Theatre. Director Blanche McIntyre. Performer Hiran Abeysekera (Leonardo D Vinci). Performer Stefan Adegbola (Poggio Di Chullu). Performer Dickie Beau (Sandro Botticelli). Performer Adetomiwa Edun (Lorenzo De Medici). Performer Louise Gold (Madre Maria). Performer Sirine Saba (Clarice Orsini / Venus). Performer Howard Ward (Girolamo Savonarola).

18 Oct 19 to 23 Nov 19

Hampstead Theatre, Inner London :: V202
listing details L1746397792

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