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The Life of Lucrezia Borgia by Gytha Lodge
Lucrezia Borgia,
seductress, zealot, murderer, and chief bargaining chip of the Borgia dynasty.
Lucrezia has been painted in red for over five hundred years of history but
there are other colours under there, true colours which survive if you peel
everything else away. In Gytha Lodge’s new play, Lucrezia is given a voice of
her own to explain the truth of her life and her extraordinary family. Lucrezia’s status as
daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, saw her pushed into marriage
after marriage, each for political advantage, and drawn into a sensuous,
self-indulgent lifestyle of questionable morality. The name “Lucrezia” has
become synonymous with seduction, intrigue and murder – even with claims of
incest - but it was the family
around her that moulded Lucrezia into one of the most infamous women in history.
In a sumptuous blend of
historical insight, comedy and all-out thriller, Renaissance Rome and all its
debauchery is brought to our stage. Who was the real Lucrezia? Come and judge
for yourself... AT GIRTON GLEBE SCHOOL
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