Wednesday, April 12, 2023
‘Explicitly queer and trans’: the 1580s play that inspired Shakespeare’s cross-dressing love plots
Theatre | The Guardian: Wickedly funny, astonishingly queer and over 430 years old, John Lyly’s dramatic comedy Galatea upends gender binaries and sheds power structures like they’re merely a change of clothes. Written in the 1580s, the play “gets deep into the DNA of Shakespeare and his contemporaries”, says theatre historian Andy Kesson, but has been largely forgotten.
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This piece sounds really interesting and I would love to see it performed the exploration of gender. Seems like it is a very old show that can be brought into a modern perspective very easily. I love how they were able to assemble a team that was so large so diverse and I’m sure that this production is gonna look stunning and really move the audience , I really like what they say towards the end I am talking about how plays our endless texts that are to be rewritten and revised around performers. They also going to talk about how this is something that is very familiar when you’re working with weird performers and during cabarets when you just make the text for who you are because the story may apply to anybody. I think some thing else that they’re doing with this that’s really interesting is how they are willing to accommodate any Actor and now that they have deaf performers in some of their workshops they begin to incorporate British sign language along with spoken English and then captions for the audience understand what they’re saying. they’re also going to translate the text to make it fit the modern audience slightly more. I’m curious how well done this is been I could see it going very poorly and really losing some of the meaning behind the text, but I could also see it going very well and as long as they still are able to convey the feelings behind what is said, it should be excellent.
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