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To Hold the One-Way Mirror Up

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Using lines from Shakespeare, this play stages a stage and an audience, and reflects the internalization of sexism and harmful cultural norms. Written for the class "Feminist Playwrights"on the prompt: female relationships. 

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Genre

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Meta; found text; drama; experimental

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Characters

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Actors: five to ten actors; masc; mixed ethnicities; mixed ages​

Audience: fifteen to thirty actors; femme; mixed ethnicities; mixed ages

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Content Advisory

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Mature themes and language including: violent gendered language; depiction of sexual assault (embrace and kiss); internalized sexism

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Production History

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Unproduced.
 

Excerpt

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