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As the first musical to feature a genderqueer protagonist as its lead, the show has had an extraordinary life on film, Broadway and in the music field. 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Besides documenting in their own words the work that was generated, this book captures the artists' dreams for a new post-Covid reality in which theatre is reimagined and issues of racial and economic injustice are addressed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With conversations grouped under 5 broad areas, a host of theatre makers candidly discuss the present and the future of theatre:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e * R\/evolution: How should theatre evolve rather than re-set? What kind of field could this be, if the arts sector is to survive in the US and UK and if white supremacist, classist, ableist, and patriarchal structures are dismantled, and acts of regeneration and reformation occur?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e * What does theatre look like at the local and hyper-local level and when working with young people and communities at risk?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e * What are the challenges of creating work in the digital realm and\/or exploring socially distanced performance in new ways?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e * How may theatre address social inequalities and be a place for acts of political and artistic resistance? How has the pandemic galvanised their commitments to communities, arts advocacy, use of languages on the stage and page, and considerations of the living archive?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e * Acts of communion with audiences, readers, fellow artists, students, and within ensembles and collectives. 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These three plays - A LITTLE BETRAYAL AMONG FRIENDS, THE LABYRINTH OF DESIRE and THE MONSTER IN THE GARDEN - play fast and loose with issues of gender, sexuality, and identity and shed new light on works from Spain's golden age of drama.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312194040181,"sku":"9781300176725","price":12.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781300176725_cf5e8228-1472-47c0-ada2-a20daa15059b.jpg?v=1786018631"},{"product_id":"shakespeare-refracted","title":"Shakespeare Refracted","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover Caridad Svich’s fresh reimaginings of Shakespeare’s plays that highlight the reality of the Latinx experience.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecipient of an OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in theatre, Caridad Svich has written over fifty plays and has worked prodigiously as a translator, editor, essayist, and advocate for Latinx theatre: nowhere is this more evident than in her reimaginings of Shakespeare’s plays. This anthology brings together these six plays together in a single volume for the first time, allowing them to be considered and studied like never before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom\u003ci\u003e Twelve Ophelias\u003c\/i\u003e, which places the characters from \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e in Appalachia, to \u003ci\u003ePerdita Gracia\u003c\/i\u003e which draws upon \u003ci\u003eThe Winter’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e to tell a story in the Florida Keys, to \u003ci\u003eThe Breath of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eStars \u003c\/i\u003ewhich is realises The Tempest reconfigured for the digital age; Svich’s work reflects contemporary American through the lens of Shakespeare. 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