Botticelli in the Fire at The Den Theatre

Playboy Sandro Botticelli has it all: talent, fame, good looks. He also has the ear and the wife of Lorenzo de Medici, as well as the Renaissances hottest young apprentice, Leonardo Da Vinci. But while at work on his breakthrough commission, The Birth of Venus, Botticellis devotion to pleasure and beauty is put to the ultimate test. As the plague sweeps through the city, the charismatic friar Savonarola starts to stoke the fires of dissent against the liberal elite. Botticelli finds the life he knows breaking terrifyingly apart, forcing him to choose between love and survival. Jordan Tannahills hot-blooded queering of Renaissance Italy questions the value of art at the collapse of society.