Diverse alarums: centering marginalised communities in the contemporary performance of early modern plays

也许在早期的现代戏剧中，最常见的舞台指示是“多样化的警报”，意思是“舞台上和后台的每个人都能尽可能多地制造噪音吗？”“威廉·莎士比亚在学术和表演中的不成比例的代表性使早期现代戏剧在公众心目中与白色、健全、异性恋、顺性别的男性叙事保持一致，但早期现代戏剧一直在呼吁多样化的警报沿着。这个项目通过大规模制作约翰·利的《加拉提亚》来挑战”古典“戏剧中的这种规范趋势，这是一部以女性为中心的早期现代戏剧，跨性别者、酷儿、残疾人和移民的生活故事，几乎没有成年的顺性别男性。在这样做的过程中，我们寻求将戏剧带给广泛和多样化的观众，并尝试以新颖的方式突出历史叙事，讲述与当前社会政治问题产生共鸣的故事。在莎士比亚统治古典戏剧的时代，我们寻求将一部被遗忘的戏剧永久地重新引入当代经典，从而在这个过程中挑战经典的职权范围。约翰·利利的《加拉提亚》是一部非常重要的早期现代英国戏剧，它为当代表演者和观众提供了一个无与伦比的肯定和交叉的人口统计，探索女权主义，酷儿，变性人和移民生活在一个演员阵容中，其中包括很少的顺性别成年男性，它建立了对同性恋和变性婚姻的庆祝。然而，自1588年以来，这部戏剧几乎没有舞台历史，只是开始在学者和学生中更为人所知。多样化的警报将改变这种状况与方法的独特组合，包括早期现代研究，实践作为研究，受众研究，定性研究，跨，酷儿和残疾研究。该项目来自项目首席研究员安迪·凯森（Andy Kesson）之间多年的合作和赠款捕获。（罗汉普顿）和戏剧制作人艾玛弗兰克兰，这表明了我们的工作的可行性，以改变围绕公平和包容在古典和当代戏剧的辩论。它将与马尔伯勒制作公司、WildWorks和布莱顿艺术节合作，PI与合作研究员Sandra纳尔逊（苏塞克斯）和博士后研究助理合作，作为该项目的创意合作伙伴和首席研究员。

Perhaps the most frequent stage direction in all early modern drama is 'diverse alarums', which means something like 'Could everyone onstage and backstage please make as much noise as possible?' The disproportionate representation of William Shakespeare in scholarship and performance has aligned early modern drama in the public mind with white, able-bodied, heterosexual, cisgender male narratives, but early modern drama has been calling for diverse alarums all along.This project challenges this normative trend in 'classical' theatre by mounting a large-scale production of John Lyly's Galatea, an early modern play centered around female, trans, queer, disabled and migrant life stories, and featuring almost no adult cisgender men. In doing so, we seek to bring the play to wide ranging and diverse audiences and experiment with novel ways of foregrounding historical narratives to tell stories that resonate with current socio-political issues. At a time when Shakespeare dominates classical theatre, we seek to permanently reintroduce a forgotten play to the contemporary canon, and thereby challenge the canon's remit in the process.John Lyly's Galatea is an extraordinarily important early modern English play It offers contemporary performers and audiences an unparalleled affirmative and intersectional demographic, exploring feminist, queer, transgender and migrant lives in a cast of characters that includes very few cisgender adult males, and it builds towards the celebration of a queer and trans marriage. Yet the play has almost no stage history since 1588, and is only starting to be better known amongst academics and students. Diverse Alarums will transform this state of affairs with a unique combination of methods, ranging across early modern studies, practice-as-research, audience studies, qualitative research, trans, queer and disability studies.The project comes out of several years of collaboration and grant-capture between the project Principal Investigator, Andy Kesson (Roehampton), and the theatremaker Emma Frankland, which has demonstrated the viability of our work to shift debates around equity and inclusion in both classical and contemporary theatre. It will be staged in collaboration with Marlborough Productions, WildWorks and Brighton Festival, with the PI working with Co-Investigator, Sandra Nelson (Sussex), and the Post-Doctoral Research Assistant as creative partners for the production and lead researchers for the project.