The Light and the Dark (the life and times of Artemisia Gentileschi)

Kate Hamill has enjoyed considerable success as the star of her own stage adaptations of literary classics including Little Women, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Now she turns the page from 19th-century novels to delve further back& in history with a bioplay about the Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi, who became a great painter despite the overwhelming obstacle of being a woman in 17th-century Italy. Jade King Carroll directs the play's Off Broadway premiere for Primary Stages, with a cast of six led by Hamill as Artemisia.