by Thomas Middleton
Season 4, Episode 1: Violent Intimacy
Hosted by Gray Casterline and Scarlet Frishman Darling
Points of Interest:
- What’s the main plot of The Changeling?
- How does the choreography of violence and intimacy tell a story onstage?
- Gender studies, queer theory, and The Changeling
- Let’s talk about that severed finger!
- Case studies
- BBC’s 1974 Production
- BBC’s 1993 Production
- Brave Spirit Theatre’s 2018 Production
- An interview with the director of the BST production, Charlene V. Smith
- Wrap-up
Episode Transcript and Bibliography available here.
Season 4, Episode 2: Madness Onstage and Off
Hosted by Aubree Gray and Grayson Fulp
Points of Interest:
- Wait… *what* is the B-plot of the The Changeling?!
- Early modern mental health
- Asylums in context
- Treatment of the mentally ill and conditions of the institutions
- Private Asylums
- Can/Should this B-plot be performed?
- Offering context through extra-textual media
- Interweaving disability studies
- Preparing for negative reactions
- Wrap-Up
Episode Transcript and Bibliography available here.
