‘gallathea’ for today – premieres tonight

“Gal­lathea or Galatea is an Eliz­a­bethan era stage play, a com­e­dy by John Lyly. The first record of the play’s per­for­mance was at Green­wich Palace on New Year’s Day, 1588 where it was per­formed be­fore Queen Eliz­a­beth I and her court by the Chil­dren of St Paul’s, a troupe of boy ac­tors.”
—wiki

“John Lyly’s Gal­lathea is a queer love sto­ry set in­side the land­scape of clas­si­cal myth. In or­der to avoid be­com­ing din­ner for a sea mon­ster, Gal­lathea and Phill­i­da are sent into the for­est dressed as boys. Mean­while, three ship­wrecked broth­ers set out to seek their for­tunes, Cu­pid stirs up his usu­al trou­ble, nymphs fall for mor­tals, and Nep­tune – God of the Sea – waits to make his move. This play­ful pas­toral of love, de­sire, and find­ing your­self is an af­fir­ma­tion of iden­ti­ty – joy­ful­ly re­claimed for 2021.”
—pro­mo

“So es­sen­tial­ly, this play from 1588 is al­ready ex­treme­ly queer, and ex­treme­ly fe­male-dri­ven – and now this on­line pro­duc­tion is be­ing re­al­ized as a new ex­er­cise in queer­ness for our cur­rent mo­ment. The di­rec­tor is a queer woman named Emma Rosa Went, and she’s rad – I worked with her on Fe­male Nude Seat­ed – and the pro­duc­ing the­atre, Red Bull, are them­selves all about reinventing/revitalizing clas­si­cal texts for to­day. I’m lucky enough to be play­ing Gal­lathea her­self, which is awe­some! A lot of work is also be­ing put in to cast queer ac­tors, ac­tors of col­or – and, not for noth­ing, var­i­ous clas­si­cal gods like Cu­pid, Di­ana, and Venus (char­ac­ters in this play) are them­selves go­ing to be por­trayed by non-bi­na­ry peo­ple. The queer­ness abounds!”
—Olivia Rose Ba­res­si

 

Pre­mier­ing tonight (a lit­tle while af­ter I write this) an on­line per­for­mance of Gal­lathea will be stream­ing this month via Red Bull The­ater in as­so­ci­a­tion with Dra­ma League, fea­tur­ing flom­mist Olivia Rose Ba­res­si in the lead,

“I feel re­al­ly strong­ly about the piece al­ready, and the sort of joy­ful ex­per­i­men­ta­tion that it’s go­ing to hold about love, queer­ness, fem­i­nin­i­ty, and all of that.”
 

To stream, head here.

Face­book stuffs here.

Be­hind the scenes chat chat here.

A record­ing of the livestream will be avail­able un­til 7:00 PM EST on Fri­day, 19 March 2021 – then it dis­ap­pears.

 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM!

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