Head, shoulders, knees and gender
Yale’s newest theater topic is 300 years old. Michael Leibenluft ’10 sought to change drama at Yale, so he applied for an independent study in the Theater Studies Department to explore “what happens when you take away the playwright,” and pursue something “more democratic and inclusive than a lot of theater at Yale,” he said last week.
From April 23rd through the 25th at the Whitney Theater, Leibenluft and 12 collaborators will premiere “The Student Body.” The collective has taken the semester to write and produce the show, which renders issues of gender and sexuality at Yale —...
