Lorenzo (1963, Alfred Drake) - repro

Jack Richardson’s short-lived 1963 Broadway historical drama 'Lorenzo' completed a brief run of 4 performances at the historic Plymouth Theatre, remaining an essential Holy Grail curiosity for scholars tracking late-century dramatic failures. The textually rich narrative unfolds deep inside the war-torn landscape of Renaissance Italy, tracking Lorenzo, a fiercely prideful, eccentric artistic master who leads a traveling troupe of commedia dell'arte street performers, collapsing into a tragic existential crisis when his pacifist ensemble is trapped between two brutal military factions. Directed by Arthur Penn, the production starred Alfred Drake.