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Teacher-student affair ‘not a love story’: why play’s male directors got it wrong
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By Jane Mulkerrins
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When Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch began working on the script that would eventually become
Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, she had certain expectations of audience reactions. “I thought: they’re going to hate the female character, Annie. They’re going to think she’s a monster, and they’re going to judge her,” she recalls.
At the first reading of the play in front of an audience, however, at the Seattle Repertory Theatre in June 2017, the opposite occurred. “All my expectations were reversed,” says Moscovitch. “The vitriol the audience expressed was towards the male character, Jon. There’s a moment at the end of the play where he stands, looking out at the aud ....

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