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Shakespeare offers insight into trans struggles, experience: scholar

Shakespeare offers insight into trans struggles, experience: scholar

The Canada Press published in the Vancouver Observer, 18 March 2016 The struggles of a gender-bending spirit servant in a Shakespearean classic offer unlikely but valuable insights into the experience of life as a modern-day trans person, argues a British Columbia scholar. Mary Ann Saunders, an English professor at the University of British Columbia, said she was struck after watching […]

March 20, 2016 · 0 comments · Interviews
Pacific University to portray a transgender Romeo in modern take of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

Pacific University to portray a transgender Romeo in modern take of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

By Ken Centers for The Oregonian/OregonLive, 10 March 2015 Rusty Tennant, director of Pacific University’s production of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” is presenting a unique interpretation of the tragic love story. Verona is a contemporary high school instead of a city; Lord Capulet is its principal, and Friar Lawrence a counselor of the eager-youth-group-leader type. A handful of the characters are transgender, including […]

March 17, 2015 · 0 comments · Teachers, Theaters