Department Revives Playwright Cowley, For a Day
It is rare at Yale to see the “revival” of a play that means just that— a new life for an underperformed work. Most revivals here lay claim to the obviously undead; Shakespeare and Shepard, Wilder and Wilde, are the favored corpses of campus theater. But a performance on Wednesday afternoon was a clear exception.
For the 14th of its annual staged readings, the English Department presented 18th century playwright Hannah Cowley’s A School for Greybeards; or, The Mourning Bride. Directed by English and Theater Studies Professor Murray Biggs, the reading took place in Linsley-Chittenden...
