Brand new play with a few new voices! Join Brittany Chandler, Mitchel Kawash, Samantha Blinn, Parker Denton, and Ariana Karp as we dive into John Webster’s early tragedy, The White Devil.
Director Brittany Chandler leads the discussion, introducing this Jacobean masterpiece through the lens of the character Flamineo, whom she played at LAMDA. Her concept is to examine the play with the given circumstance that Flamineo (a male character in the original play) is a woman. Brittany completed her master’s thesis on the subject!
Among many topics we discuss:
- Our own experiences with the play
- Gender and gender fluidity in Elizabethan and Jacobean plays
- Family dynamics within the play
- How the Duchess of Malfi (also by John Webster) echoes The White Devil
- Historical reception
- Jacobean nostalgia for Elizabeth I and the chaste female ruler
- Siblings in Jacobean drama and the obsession with the sister’s sexuality
Webster's forward of The White Devil.