THE ROARING GIRL by Casey Bradley, after Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton

The Roaring Girl is a new play in development, inspired by the life of Mary Frith, known as 'Moll Cutpurse’, and adapted from the Jacobean play by Dekker and Middleton. Moll was a pimp, a pickpocket, allegedly London’s first female tobacco smoker, and defied convention and flouted gender roles of their time by dressing in men's clothing. This adaptation explores The Roaring Girl through the non-binary lens it deserves, written and performed by Casey Bradley - a queer, gender-non-confirming AFAB artist. The play will be developed at The Actors Studio in the Playwright Directors Workshop in 2024-25.

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Shakespeare Slay Fest: Inaugural Season Announcement

We know his work still slays. But who’s slaying his work?

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Arts on Site, 12 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10003 | July 18th, 19th, 20th | 6:30pm & 8:30pm

Another f**king Shakespeare festival? Yup. Shakespeare sailed through the #metoo movement scot free and no ones talking about it. Sure, he’s been dead for over 400 years and there were bigger fish to fry, but something’s actually rotten in the state of Denmark. So how do you hold a dead man to account? Especially one whose work has nourished our souls with words, words, words for years, years, years? 

Enter the inaugural Shakespeare Slay Fest to expand the conversation beyond the same ‘authentic’ version of Shakespeare you've seen in the park a hundred times. Audiences today want to shout, to hold old man ideas to account, to hear different voices and to see those voices represented onstage. So, three Shakespeare nerds, three performances, three days (so Weird Sisters of us!), and lots of spicy things will be said, at Arts On Site in the East Village, NYC. July 18th, 19th & 20th. 

Carla Kissane (she/her), Grant Cartwright (he/him) and Casey Bradley (she/they), (that’s us!) deepdive into Shakespeare and his time to unearth what has been hidden in plain sight to unlock a bold perspective you wouldn’t deliver to a bunch of stuffy subscribers. Our love of the Bard is our superpower and we want to inspire a curiosity, love and relevancy of Shakespeare in 2024.

The Shakespeare Slay Fest presents a triple bill of works that reveal our collective humanity through challenging the cannon and the idea of the man (or woman - gasp!) that resides in the popular, collective and historical consciousness. We aim to make the work accessible for all and are committed to inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility, creating a space of belonging for all audiences and artists. 

NYC keeps getting into bed with the Bard - the ballet is dancing A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Romeo and Juliet, and Othello will open on Broadway this fall -  so here’s our offering. We’re changing the sheets and looking under this bed to reveal, reframe and f**cking slay.