George Chakravarthi: Thirteen

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Thirteen is a newly commissioned photographic installation by award-winning London based artist George Chakravarthi. Specifically conceived for the RSC's Swan Room, the works on show portray thirteen of Shakespeare's tragic characters all of whom meet their ends through suicide. Created as a series of powerful self-portraits embedded in light boxes, Chakravarthi assumes the roles of some of Shakespeare's most celebrated yet doomed characters: Brutus, Cassius, Eros, Goneril, Mark Antony, Othello, Timon, Lady Macbeth, Portia, Ophelia, Cleopatra, Juliet and Romeo.