John Lyly's long-forgotten Galatea " featuring gods, mortals and a highly elastic approach to gender and sex " is being revived at the Brighton festival. We meet the team behind it Wickedly funny, astonishingly queer and over 430 years old, John Lyly's dramatic comedy Galatea upends gender binaries and sheds power structures like they're merely a change of clothes. Written in the 1580s, the play "gets deep into the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM on April 12, 2023