I am currently working through a list of new plays published and premiered in the 2019-20 season. Scissoring became the first on my list as I looked for plays written by women about women, people of color, and queer individuals. Scissoring features an almost exclusively female cast who are racially ...
Black Lives Matter In the Theatre Industry
With the increasing awareness of how systemic racism remains an ongoing problem in every aspect of human existence, I thought it was important to address its presence in my own industry in America. The theatre community is in no way exempt from participating in and perpetuating systemic racism. This ...
Untamed Love on the Renaissance Stage
This post is taken from an essay I wrote at university about the restrictions on love and marriage in Early Modern England and the how they were explored on the stage. This essay looks at two Jacobean plays, Tis' Pity She's a Whore by John Ford and The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster, and recounts ...