The Revenger's Tragedy: Presented by the Red Bull Theatre at the Culture Project, New York, New York
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Revenger's Tragedy Presented by The Red Bull Theatre at The Culture Project, York, York. November 29, 2005-January 22, 2006. Directed and adapted by Jesse Berger. Set design Evan O'Brient. Costumes Clint Ramos. Masks Emily DeCola. Hair and make-up Erin Kennedy Lunsford. Music Daniel Levy. Choreography Tracy Bersley. With Matthew Rauch (Vindice), Haynes Thigpen (Hippolito), Naomi Peters (Castiza), Petronia Paley (Gratiana), Christopher Oden (Duke), Claire Lautier (Duchess), Marc Vietor (Lussurioso), Jason C. Brown (Spurio), Daniel Cameron Talbot (Ambitioso), Ryan Farley (Supervacuo), Paul Niebanck (Antonio), Saudia Davis (Lucretia). New York loves Revenge! That's what my email inbox said in early 2006 when The Red Bull Theatre's adaptation of The Revenger's Tragedy at The Culture Project was held over for three extra weeks. Since setting up shop in 2002, Red Bull has staged Jacobean plays in the basement theatre of Bleeker Street's Culture Project in Manhattan's East Village. The company takes its name from the Red Bull that was built in 1605, housed John Heywood's Queen's Servants, and hosted performances through the Interregnum. The group's first York production was Pericles in 2003, but the heart of Red Bull's project is non-Shakespearean drama: alongside its full productions Red Bull also hosts a series of Revelation Readings of underperformed plays. The list for last season included d Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Women Beware Women, a gender experiment on Macbeth, A Mad World, My Masters, The Witch of Edmonton, The Roman Actor, and The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Next year's program will include Edward II, The Rover, and The Changeling. The Revenger's Tragedy, once assigned to Cyril Tourneur but now usually held to be the work of Thomas Middleton, was performed as a bloody romp that combined suggestive topicality--plenty of corruption, deception, and political hypocrisy--with accessible staging and strong performances. Especially since was playing at the Classic Stage Company twenty blocks north at the same time, comparisons to Shakespeare were obvious. What was most striking about The Revenger's Tragedy was how much it charmed audiences used to more familiar early modern fare. The York Times review by Nell Genzlinger (12 December 2005) called the play like Shakespeare on speed, and a theatre blog wittily termed it Hamlet without the whining. While productions of often carry a whiff of piety, Red Bull's Revenger's Tragedy oscillated between violent intensity and near-parody. Vindice's opening monologue, in which he sentimentally addressed the skull of his dead mistress, set the stage for a spoof of Hamlet. …
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".