Shape Shifting: Contemporary Women Playwrights Re-imagine Homer, Shakespeare, and Chekhov

Ripe Time and New present Shape Shifting: Contemporary Women Playwrights Re-imagine Homer, Shakespeare, and Chekhov, a series of readings and conversations with award-winning women playwrights whose work jumps off from classic texts.

Each evening features a reading from the writer’s play, excerpts from the texts that inspired each play, and a spirited conversation about the politics and aesthetics of adaptation. The discussions look at the broad spectrum of artists in the American theatre re-imagining classic texts through plays that offer a diverse array of approaches, aesthetically and politically.