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counter-casting

Counter-Casting

Posted on 29 September 202223 December 2022 by Liam Lockhart-Rush

COUNTER-CASTING: The practice of casting bodies in roles that they would not have played “traditionally” in an attempt to change the story that is being told and provide a different take on the same story by challenging the audience’s expectations. In her 2020 book, Shakespearean Futures: Casting the Bodies of Continue Reading

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