John Ford - "Tis Pity She's a Whore"

For this production, the first images that came to my mind were of shadows. In Tis Pity John Ford writes the young lovers as one would imagine in any other love story, the main difference being that they are related. With that in mind, I would like to create a poster with just Annabella and Giovanni fully fleshed out in the center with shadow versions of the other characters surrounding them, perhaps the shadows are larger-than-life. I want to create the idea that in the world of this play, only the love of the sibling is true, and all the others who surround them are at once merely shades, but together they form something much more formidable and oppressive. One quote I can imagine accompanying this poster is Giovanni's from Act 1 Scene 1, "Shall a peevish sound, a customary form, from man to man, of brother and of sister, be a bar 'twixt my perpetual happiness and me?" I think this quote demonstrates the desperation they feel to be together. Another possible quote is from Act 2 Scene 5, also Giovanni's, "If hers to me, then so is mine to her, since in like causes are effects alike." This quote I think displays more of their resolve to go through with their affair, especially since it comes later in the play when they have already pledged their love to one another. The last quote I could imagine for this poster is from Act 4 Scene 3, when Annabella has been found out by her husband Soranzo and he is demanding the name of her unborn child's father: "This noble creature was in every part so angel-like, so glorious, that a woman who had not been but human, as was I, would have kneeled to him, and have begged for love." I feel this quote captures Annabella's unquenchable desire for her brother and her deep love for him not as kin, but as a man.