The stage adaptation of Shakespeare in Love tells of the triumph of imagination and the rise of the Bard to fame and fortune in Elizabethan England. But as with many a Shakespeare play, it also involves a bit of cross-dressing and it is that is proving controversial for many American high schools
Stevie Ray Dallimore, an actor and teacher, had been running the theater program for Chattanooga s McCallie School for a decade, but he never faced a school year like this one.
High school drama teachers complained to the New York Times about parents pushing back on controversial content in plays, linking the complaints to book bans.
Stevie Ray Dallimore, an actor and teacher, had been running the theater program for a private boys’ school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for a decade, but he never faced a school year like this one. A proposed production of “She Kills Monsters” at a neighboring girls’ school that would have included his students was rejected for gay content, he said. A “Shakespeare in Love” at the girls’ school that would have featured his boys was rejected because of cross-dressing. His school’s production of “Th