The Changeling

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.