Women Beware Women

Director Jaybird O'Berski, Theater Studies faculty, says that Thomas Middleton's 17th century Women Beware Women burns with feverish characters who manipulate the desires and fears of both their enemies and friends. This lost classic hums with the sensuality of a film noir and howls with comedic characters that spiral into a passion pit of their own making. O'Berski cast women to play all roles in the play.

“We’re doing this play now because of the extreme power and intellect of the young women currently involved in making theater at Duke,” says O’Berski. “In a time where reactionary forces are attempting to inflict damage on the basic human and reproductive rights of women, it seemed apropos to create work where female characters live freely and create their own rules. Women Beware Women is a play about a righteous questioning of presumed morality, where sexuality and class trump traditional gender roles, where love eats itself and tastes delicious.”