It's True, It's True, It's True

Fringe First-winning, Breach Theatre, re-stage the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi, for the rape of baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi.

Based on surviving court transcripts, the seven-month trial that gripped Renaissance Rome is brought to the stage, asking how much has changed in the last four centuries.

Blending myth, history and contemporary commentary, this is the story of how a woman took revenge through her art to become one of the most successful painters of her generation.