CURTAIN CALL: The sexploits of beautiful people

Quintessence stages Shakespeare's overtly erotic Venus and Adonis, proof that beautiful people have made captivating theater for centuries.

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CURTAIN CALL: The sexploits of beautiful people

POSTED: Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 11:00 AM

Each week, Michael Gold breezes past those big-name theater companies to turn a spotlight on Philly's indie stages.

Even with the apocrypha and lost manuscripts taken out of the equation, Shakespeare produced an extensive body of work. That’s why it’s always disappointing when theater buffs and literary scholars remain fixated on few of the Bard’s plays and sonnets. With its commitment to classic drama, it's no surprise Quintessence delved past Romeo and Juliet to stage Venus and Adonis. Based partially on Ovid’s mythologies, the overtly erotic narrative (“Backward she push’d him,” pens Shakespeare, “as she would be thrust”) focuses on the Roman goddess of love and her hunky mortal lover. Consider it proof culture has been obsessed with the sexploits of beautiful people for centuries.

April 5-7, $15-60, Sedgwick Theater, 7137 Germantown Ave., 877-238-5596, quintessencetheatre.org.

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