The Mandrake
by Niccolò Machiavelli
the Pearl Theatre, New York, January 8, 2008 (from the Italian)
The staging features members of The Pearl Theatre Company’s 2007-08 resident acting company — Rachel Botchan, Bradford Cover, Dominic Cuskern, TJ Edwards, Edward Seamon, Carol Schultz — and guest actors Erik Steele and Rocelyn Halili.
According to Pearl, “Crawling with social parasites and crooked conspirators, The Mandrake (1513) remains one of the bawdiest plays of the Italian Renaissance. Here is the wicked and uproarious lighter side of political mastermind Niccolo Machiavelli, as he reflects on a world where cunning, vice, and mischief win the day.”