Queering the Canon for Care – Curated Panel
Eliza Ladd Schwarz asks: Is Men On Boats a queering of the canon? Considering the impact on both audience and actors, what is the significance of female and non-binary actors playing historical male adventurers in a play about the 1869 White American exploration of the Grand Canyon? How is our understanding of history changed by this casting? What new experience does it offer the actors? Does it provide the audience with an expanded understanding of women and non-binary people? ATHE 2025 Panel: Queering the Canon for Care