Caravaggio - Act 1
Table Read
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4.0 • 440 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Caravaggio, the brilliant outlaw painter whose genius made him famous and whose violence made him a fugitive.
Rome, 1610. The city is loud, corrupt, holy, and dangerous. Caravaggio thrives in it.
Act One drops you straight into the night everything breaks. Inside a dark Roman chapel, Caravaggio confronts his greatest rival and exposes a truth the Church is not ready to control. God does not live in perfection. God lives in flesh, shadow, and brutal light.
Outside the church, Rome answers back. Wine turns into provocation. Desire turns into rivalry. Old grudges sharpen. A debt comes due. What begins as swagger spirals into violence, and by dawn Caravaggio’s life in Rome is over.
Wanted. Hunted. Unforgivable.
A carriage slips through the gates. A boat cuts across black water. Behind him, the city that crowned him now wants him dead. Ahead lies Malta, a fortified island ruled by warrior monks, where faith is enforced with steel and survival demands obedience.
Act One is ignition. Art as rebellion. Faith as power. Genius as liability.
This is where the fuse gets lit.
Cast
Dennis Kleinman · Narrator
Craig Parker · Caravaggio
Dan Lauria · Cardinal Del Monte
Bruce Davison · Alof de Wignacourt
Shaan Sharma · Stefano della Croce
Catherine Lidstone · Lena
Sarah Elmaleh · Maria
Brendan Bradley · Annibale Carracci
Noah James · Ranuccio Tomassoni
Josh Sterling · Ottavio Tomassoni
Zeke Alton · Giovan Tomassoni
Nick Monteleone · Mancini
Matt Curtin · Toppa
Bjorn Johnson · Pope Paul V
Ray Abruzzo · Pope Clement VIII
Written by
Richard Vetere
Executive Produced by
Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell
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| 0:00.0 | We're live? All right. |
| 0:03.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:05.0 | So historically, for those of you who have not been here, historically before every read, we say three things. |
| 0:12.0 | We say table, read, and we say the name of the script. |
| 0:15.0 | So give us the pronunciation that you would like to hear on the script. |
| 0:20.0 | Caravaggio. Caravaggio. |
| 0:21.6 | So, it's going to be table read, caravaggio. |
| 0:25.6 | And I would like to have a little bit of excitement, |
| 0:28.6 | a little bit of like you're happy to be here, |
| 0:31.6 | put a little something in your step. |
| 0:34.6 | All right, on the count, three, here we go. |
| 0:36.6 | One, two, three. Table read, Caravaggio. |
| 0:39.3 | Wow. |
| 0:42.3 | Caravaggio, written by Richard. |
| 0:46.3 | That's a good way to start. |
| 0:48.3 | You get the pressure on right away. |
| 0:50.3 | Yeah, thanks. |
| 0:51.3 | Caravaggio, written by Richard Viterre, based on his stage play. |
| 0:57.2 | On black, on screen, Rome 1610. |
| 1:01.5 | Sounds of the city, loud, deep, human voices, life at its fullest, overlaps into following scene. |
| 1:09.9 | Fade in on, exterior ghetto of Ortachu, the evil garden, Rome, night. |
| 1:16.6 | Small groups of drunk men and prostitutes shout, insults and seductions at one another. |
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