Location: Newberry Library and R18 Collective Workshop (online)

This event began with four key questions:

1. How might we conceive of Restoration and eighteenth-century plays as part of our living repertoire?  In what sense are they vital for this moment? What is their performative potential in the present?
2. How might we conceive of Restoration and eighteenth-century plays as part of our living repertoire?  In what sense are they vital for this moment? What is their performative potential in the present?
3. How might we conceive of Restoration and eighteenth-century plays as part of our living repertoire?  In what sense are they vital for this moment? What is their performative potential in the present?
4. How might we conceive of Restoration and eighteenth-century plays as part of our living repertoire?  In what sense are they vital for this moment? What is their performative potential in the present?

It also involved the pitching of eighteenth-century plays. Here’s one that I and Angelina Del Balzo prepared for Zara:

Raised in the Ottoman court, Zara has fallen in love with her captor, the Sultan Osman. However, when the benevolent Osman decides to ransom some of his Christian captives, Zara discovers her long-lost father and brother among them. She must now make a choice: stay with Osman in Muslim Jerusalem and continue their marriage plans, or accept the religion of her birth and be christened.