La Jolla Playhouse gives us a re-imagined play where identities can be fully explored through a cast of trans, non-binary and queer performers.
And what if that was reflected through the production design — a circular stage offered as a challenge to binary ideas — and costumes?
"In this production Rosalind starts to shed layers, courtly layers, and then starts to accumulate other things and we're watching her transform over time. And that this is mirrored in the clothes of the other characters too. We're finishing building a moment right now where everyone gets a chance to take something they have that they don't want anymore and give it to someone else who they think it would look great on.
And while the production has added some contemporary music it has not really altered the text of Shakespeare’s play, even when Rosalind’s epilogue returns to the binary language of male and female.
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