The OOBR (Off-Off-Broadway-Review) says:
As Lucrezia Borgia, Quiche Kemble's performance was something of a tour de force: she was on stage for almost the entire play. As playwright, Ms. Kemble has emphasized how little is really known about Lucrezia. Perhaps she was not the monster most people seem to have believed her to be, perhaps she was. This ambivalence is reflected in the play and to some extent in Ms. Kemble's performance.And according to CurtainsUp:
The result is a 5-character play focusing on the life of Lucrezia Borgia between 1497, when she was 18 years old, pregnant and about to be married for the third time to her death at age 39 (a not so unusually young age for the period). And guess what? This Lucrezia, while something of a licentious silly goose apparently none the worse for years of incestuous relations with her brother Cesare and her father (Pope Alexander VI), emerges as a gifted and right-minded ruler, and heroic fighter for woman's right to free will. A far cry from Donizetti's opera based on the same character!
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