LDP's 11th production, Looking for Mariam, 1613, premieres online!
Lord Denney's Players, with the Departments of English and Theatre, Film, and Media Arts, is excited to announce the premiere of Looking for Mariam, 1613, a documentary film exploring Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam, roughly contemporaneous with William Shakespeare's Othello. The film will premiere on the Department of English YouTube channel, with a talkback to follow with the cast and crew.
Links/schedule:
- 7:00 p.m.: Premiere of Looking for Mariam, 1613 on YouTube
- 8:30 p.m.: Talkback with cast and crew on Zoom [Registration is required, but approval is automatic]
About the film
Shakespeare famously wrote for an “all-male” stage, but it is less well-known that early modern Englishwomen also wrote plays and took part in making theatre in a variety of ways. Around the same time as Shakespeare was writing Othello, one of his female contemporaries, Elizabeth Cary, wrote a play about Mariam, the second wife of King Herod of Judea. First printed in 1613, Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam explores issues such as the ethics of divorce, the threat of women’s public speech, the dangers of defying tyrants, the norms of dramatic convention, and the construction of racial stereotypes.
This full-length documentary film, LDP's eleventh production, explores The Tragedy of Mariam's critical history and its possible futures, featuring performance as well as interviews from leading scholars around the world. Written and produced by students enrolled in ENGL 4520.02: Special Topics in Shakespeare under the direction of Professor Elizabeth Kolkovich, Looking for Mariam, 1613 uses distance learning to bring the high-impact LDP experience to OSU's regional campuses for the first time.
For full cast and crew listings, visit the Looking for Mariam, 1613 production page on Lord Denney's Players' website.
