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

在所有早期的现代戏剧中，最常见的舞台导演可能是“多样化的警报”，意思是“请台上和后台的每个人都尽量大声喧哗好吗？”威廉·莎士比亚在学术和表演方面的不成比例的表现，使早期现代剧在公众心目中与白人、身体健全、异性恋、顺性别的男性叙事保持一致，但早期现代剧一直呼吁多样化的校友。这个项目通过大规模制作约翰·莱利的《加拉提亚》来挑战这一经典戏剧的规范趋势，这是一部早期现代剧，以女性、跨性别者、同性恋者、残疾人和移民的生活故事为中心，几乎没有成年的顺性别男性。通过这样做，我们试图将该剧带给广泛和不同的观众，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。在莎士比亚主宰古典戏剧的时候，我们试图永久地将一部被遗忘的戏剧重新引入当代正典，从而在这一过程中挑战正典的职权。约翰·莱利的《加拉提亚》是一部极其重要的早期现代英国戏剧，它为当代表演者和观众提供了无与伦比的积极和交叉的人口统计，在包括极少数顺性成年男性的角色阵容中探索女权主义、同性恋、变性人和移民生活，它朝着庆祝同性恋和跨性别婚姻的方向发展。然而，自1588年以来，该剧几乎没有舞台史，只是开始在学者和学生中更好地了解。多元化的Alarum将通过一种独特的方法组合来改变这种状况，范围涵盖早期现代研究、实践即研究、观众研究、定性研究、跨性别、同性恋和残疾研究。该项目来自项目首席调查员安迪·凯森(罗汉普顿饰)和戏剧制作人艾玛·弗兰克兰几年的合作和拨款获取，这证明了我们工作的可行性，以改变围绕古典和当代戏剧中的公平和包容的辩论。它将与马尔伯勒制作公司、WildWorks和布莱顿音乐节合作上演，PI与联合调查员桑德拉·纳尔逊(苏塞克斯)和博士后研究助理作为制作的创意合作伙伴和该项目的首席研究人员。

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.