Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

You are warmly invited to a lunch workshop on November 6 with the artist Aliza Shvarts, who will be giving a guest lecture, "Dark Play," on her recent work later that evening. The workshop is an opportunity to engage in an extended conversation with our guest speaker and with each other. We will take as […]

Co-sponsored by History of Art Performance theorist Richard Schechner describes “dark play” as the condition when the performer knows they are performing, but the audience does not. The term also invokes the “dark arts” or clandestine powers attributed to witches as reproductive criminals: women who, as described by Marxist feminist Silvia Federici, not only often helped others […]

WGS is co-sponsoring a special post-show talkback with playwright Moisés Kaufman, following the Sunday matinee performance of their acclaimed play Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde at Merrick Barn.