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Dec. 9th, 2018 06:26 pmI just got out of New Repertory Theater's production of 1776, which caught my attention several months ago when the cast list circulated and I realized this iteration of the Continental Congress included only a handful of white men - John Adams, James Wilson, Lymond Hall, Andrew McNair, and Robert Livingston in a double role as Martha Jefferson.
(Here's the trio: Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin.)
I had no idea how they were going to play the blind casting and I was sort of braced broad comedy or audience winks around the various race- and gender-swaps. In fact, however, the show played everything extremely straight (...including the parts that were extremely queer) with absolutely no changes to the book. It clearly wasn't aiming to particularly revolutionize or critique the text, but it was probably the best standard production of 1776 I've ever seen.
( Some highlights under the cut )
(Here's the trio: Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin.)
I had no idea how they were going to play the blind casting and I was sort of braced broad comedy or audience winks around the various race- and gender-swaps. In fact, however, the show played everything extremely straight (...including the parts that were extremely queer) with absolutely no changes to the book. It clearly wasn't aiming to particularly revolutionize or critique the text, but it was probably the best standard production of 1776 I've ever seen.
( Some highlights under the cut )
