What happens on way to opening night? It’s quite a drama

What happens on way to opening night? It’s quite a drama

S. Shakthidharan thrilled us with Counting and Cracking. Now, as his new play, The Wrong Gods, makes its world premiere, rehearsal diaries relive the highs and lows.

A night of drama: students put on "The Taming of the Shrew"

In the Elizabethan Era when Shakespeare wrote, a woman’s subservience was seen as a measure of her desirability as the ideal wife. Shakespeare in the Dark, a student-run theater company at the College of William and Mary, addressed this norm and the complex dynamics of marriage, abuse and gender roles through their rendition of “The Taming of the Shrew.” The play opened Saturday, April 19 in the Lab Theater of Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall.  Dire…