Play

Carnival

0 upcoming performances in New York

Thomas Porter’s *Carnival* returns to the stage at Brooklyn Paramount as a window into Restoration-era theater, first seen in London in 1664 with a working-life immediacy beneath its festive surface. Often discussed as possibly shaped by Spanish dramatic models, the play carries the period’s interest in disguise, social maneuvering, and public spectacle. Andrew Callaghan features in the current run. In New York, its value is less about novelty than about hearing an early modern comic sensibility land in a contemporary room, with its edges intact.