The curtain rises on Theatre and Youth, volume 23 of Theatre Symposium with keynote reflections by Suzan Zeder, the distinguished playwright of theatre for youth, and presents eleven original essays about theatre s reflections of youth and the role of young people in making and performing theatre.
The first set of essays draws from robustly diverse sources: the work of Frank Wedekind in nineteenth-century Germany, Peter Pan s several stage incarnations, Evgeny Shvarts s antitotalitarian plays in Soviet Russia, and Christopher Marlowe s Dido, Queen of Carthage,...