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A Feminist Guide to Horror Movies, Part 7: New Beginnings
Originally published by Ms. Magazine on October 27, 2015 Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the Internet around Halloween without being confronted with those pesky feminist analyses of every goth girl, riot grrrl and geek girl’s favorite genre—horror—SHE’S BACK with that darn Feminist Guide to Horror Movies. And this time,…
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Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare Saratoga Shakespeare Company, 2015 photos by Madison Caan costumes by Joan Lawson
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American Medea
written and directed by Holly L. Derr Skidmore College, Fall 2014 sets by Garret Wilson lighting by Jared Klein costumes by Patricia Pawliczak
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Advantageous: Feminist Science Fiction at Its Best
This article was originally published by Ms. Magazine on July 8, 2015. A sighting of that rare bird called feminist science fiction is truly a thing to celebrate. It does exist, sometimes by accident (see Alien), and sometimes on purpose (see almost anything by Octavia Butler). With Advantageous, a film written by Jacqueline Kim and Jennifer Phang,…
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Beyond the Aristocratic Theater
(This post was part of the blog salon curated by Jacqueline E. Lawton for the 2015 TCG National Conference: Game Change, originally published in June, 2015. The following questions informed the final plenary session, “Artistic Leadership: How We Change the Game.”) JACQUELINE LAWTON: What was the most game-changing production you’ve seen or created, and why? HOLLY L. DERR: The…
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon
Originally published by HowlRound on March 26, 2015 Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon, first presented in New York in 1859, bears more than a striking resemblance to its better-known stage sister, George Aiken’s adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which premiered in 1852. Both plays, in their attempts to create sympathy for slaves while also…
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Oh, THAT Play
This is hilarious: Oh, THAT Play. via Oh, THAT Play.
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#Ferguson: They Who Have the Guns Have the Power
Originally published by tcg on August 27, 2014 (Ed. Note: The following blog salon series will focus on how theatre artists are responding to Michael Brown’s death and the oppression, violence, and resistance happening in Ferguson, MO. This series grew out of a series of discussions between Oregon based theatre-makers Claudia Alick, Mica Cole and Massachusetts based theatre-maker Megan Sandberg-Zakian, and myself. If…
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Taking “Don’t Fuck It Up” to Heart
Originally published by The Know Theatre of Cincinnati on July 17, 2014 In preparation for directing Sigrid Gilmer’s Harry & the Thief, I’m reading a book called Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History. In it, the author, Milton C. Sernott, traces the development of Harriet Tubman as American icon by examining primary sources, children’s books (there are…
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