Howdy all and welcome back to Unknown Playwrights. This week’s link dump is brought to you by poster’s of Lorrainne Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun.
Community theatre and segregation
Can we just not have West Side Story any more?
Prejudice against regional actors
More theatre reminisces from playwright David Hansen
Have you ever wanted to read about Kit Marlowe in Indonesian?
Angry playwrights helped atheism become popular
Are lesbians the black sheep of Broadway?
When revenge tragedy meets high school ritual
London’s 6 biggest historical theatre scandals. One involves forcing kids to be actors
Who was your teacher that pushed you in the arts?
Was an actor the inspiration for Dracula?
Some hot, hot García Lorca in translation
Marat/Sade goes meta and Indonesian
Miss Marple in Goa. I feel so sorry for Goa.
The Importance of Being Earnest (performed by immigrants)
Turns out UK theatre is super mega racist too.
That actor who does one-man-shows of Molière’s works
That actress who recreates her life in a one-woman show
She also does a sci fi solo show about rape
The world’s most unusual theatres
And to end this week’s post, here is Kendra Smith covering Mimi & Richard Fariña’s Bold Marauder.