Terrific actors keep emerging from the wings, making deep impressions.
Eager to liberate the Netherlanders from his father s control, Don Carlos is also in love with his stepmother Elizabeth. Clouded by their private passions, manipulated by the sinister Duke of Alba, Philip and Carlos are forced into an endgame with mortal consequences. The struggle for freedom personal, religious, and amorous is at the heart of this masterpiece of suspense and passion. Michael Kahn directs the Washington premiere of this tragedy, which features Helen Hayes Award-winners Ted van Griethuysen as Philip II, Robert Sella in the title role as Don Carlos, Ed Gero as Count Lerma, Floyd King as Domingo and Naomi Jacobson as the Duchess of Olivarez. The cast includes Emery Battis, Ralph Cosham, John Lescault, Andrew Long, Elizabeth Long, and Gregory Wooddell.