It's True, It's True, It's True

Writer
Breach Theatre Co.

Director
Helena Lymbery

Location
The Carne Studio Theatre

Dates
Monday 25 October at 7:45pm
Tuesday 26 October at 2:15pm
Wednesday 27 October at 7:45pm
Thursday 28 October at 2:15pm

About the show

In Italy, 1612, Agostino Tassi was brought to trial for the rape of painter Artemisia Gentileschi.

Weaving together historical court transcripts and contemporary insight, It’s True, It’s True, It’s True delves into the seventeenth century trial that shocked Renaissance Rome.

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About the writer, Breach Theatre Co.

It’s True, It’s True, It’s True was created using a devising process with the Breach Theatre Company’s cast, as well as using surviving court transcripts from the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi.

About the director, Helena Lymbery

Helena trained as an actor at LAMDA. She has worked at theatres including the National Theatre, Royal Court, Bush Theatre, Royal Exchange, Traverse, Lyric Hammersmith, Barbican & Pentabus in the UK and in theatres in Berlin, New York, Vienna & Paris.

She has been part of the faculty as an acting tutor and director at LAMDA for the last 6 years.