By Mr Nick Akhurst, Head of Co-curricular Drama, Dance and Technical Theatre

Senior School students take on Shakespeare, academia, feminism, the patriarchy, and liberalism in this production of Dead White Males. University student Angela finds her worldview being expanded in Professor Swain’s literary theory class, which proclaims that all our realities are shaped and controlled by the dominant liberal humanist ideology. This means no objective reality, no universal human truths – not in life nor literature – even when it comes to Angela’s favourite writer, William Shakespeare. By examining Shakespeare’s plays and her own family, Angela comes to learn the importance of thinking for herself, and that not everything is as black or white as some would want her to believe.

Last done in 2012 we will be welcoming back some of the Collegian performers on opening night to watch a new generation unpack what life was back in the 1990s.

Performance details:

18 – 19 October and 24 – 26 October
7.00 pm
T.B. Millar Hall

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