The Changeling: Violent Intimacy

In this episode, our hosts Gray Casterline and Scarlet Frishman Darling excavate the main plot of Thomas Middleton's The Changeling through the lens of both onstage violence and intimacy, using gender studies and queer theory as their guides. They close read key staging moments in the play across several productions to think about the staging required by the text and that which is implied by the story's context. Then, they talk with Charlene V. Smith, the Artistic Director of Brave Spirits Theatre in Washington, DC about the stellar production she directed for the company in 2018. A note on content: This episode includes discussions sexual violence, intimacy, concept of virginity, purity culture, and violence including the severing of limbs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.