Embodied Value: Gender Representation on Currency
SWEDIAN LIE & NATALIE GALLAGHER In the wake of the U.S. Treasury Department’s decision to place Harriet Tubman on the front of the $20 bill (and move Andrew Jackson to…
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The Birth of Botticellism: Art Exhibitions as Static Re-Enactments
ANGELINA CHAIRIL About Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi Sandro Botticelli | Source: Wikimedia Commons Widely known as Sandro Botticelli, the story of the Florentine master turned present day global…
Interview with Robert Schenkkan
SWEDIAN LIE In this issue we talk to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright & screenwriter Robert Schenkkan about his award-winning Broadway play All The Way and get his thoughts on the performing…
On Whose Lands do We Perform?
DELESSLIN GEORGE-WARREN “When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply, ‘Ours.’” – Vine Deloria, Jr. How many productions have…
A Modern Lens on Historical Myths
EMMA CLARK When dealing with the distant past, we deal in fragments. Historical truth is a myth. That is to say, it is impossible to retain a record of everything…
How to Recognize a Tragedy
KATIE BELLAMY MITCHELL “Our capacity for evil depends on our ability to lie to ourselves,” said Joshua Oppenheimer after a screening of his Oscar-nominated documentary, The Look of Silence (2015). The…
Re-enactments: Representation and Revision
In this issue of SixByEight Press, we’re exploring the theme of ‘Re-enactment’ in the context of representing and revising both fictional and non-fictional accounts.