Lauren Gunderson’s Women Keep Shakespeare’s Words Alive! by Lynne Stevens Lauren Gunderson convinces us that we must thank women for the very first collection of Shakespeare’s plays. If not for women behind the scenes, there would never have been the First Folio. Five ingenious women, true patrons of the arts, push their men to…
Jiehae Park’s Swirling/Peaceful Pool Queries Age/Youth by Barry David Horwitz “the aves” is a rare bird among plays. Set in a lovely park, complete with a beautiful moving pool of water, with floating lily pads and moss, it’s hard to focus on just one thing. But when we do, we plunge into a meditative…
Reflections “Who’s the Witch in the Witchhunt?” by Jenyth Jo In “John Proctor Is the Villain,” Carter Smith, a high school English teacher in Georgia, explains, “Art tries to make sense of certain moments in time.” Since Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is an allegory for McCarthyism, phrases like the “current witch-hunt” and “speak truth…
Nina Ki Embodies Queer Women as Loveable Furries by Kheven Lee LaGron Gumiho, a creature in traditional Korean folktales, appears as a nine-tailed, shapeshifter fox who can disguise itself as a beautiful woman. The gumiho deceives and seduces men to better eat their hearts and livers. The creature appears in Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese…