Winner of the Untapped Award 2018. Fringe First and Total Theatre Award-winning Breach (Tank, The Beanfield) restage the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Based on surviving court transcripts, this new play dramatises the seven-month trial that gripped Renaissance Rome, and asks how much has changed in the last four centuries. It's True, It's True, It's True blends myth, history and contemporary commentary to tell the the story of how a woman took revenge through her art to become one of the most successful painters of her generation.

An award-winning play by Breach Theatre that restages the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi.

About the Author
Breach creates politically engaged, formally innovative live performances that cross disciplines and mash up different media. A collaboration between theatre-makers and a video artist, Breach has been described as "a young company with a strong creative identity" by The Stage and won the 2015 Total Theatre Award for an Emerging Artist or Company with The Beanfield, and a Fringe First in 2017 with TANK and again in 2018 for It's True, It's True, It's True.


Book Information
ISBN 9781350321984
Author Breach Theatre
Format Paperback
Page Count 72
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 80g