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Bard at the Gate offers a simple glance at plays that are ground-breaking: plays that were too ambitious, too quirky, and too smart to be contained.
Strong scripts. Raw talent. New audiences. New Bards.
The Play
Shapeshifter by Laura Schellhardt
On a remote island in a distant past, a young girl grapples with the mysterious loss of her mother. As the truth unfolds, two strangers arrive harboring secrets of their own.
Laura Schellhardt’s contemporary folktale, Shapeshifter, highlights the consequences of restricting women’s agency — through gossip, the assumption of marriage and motherhood, or captivity in other forms. How much power is lost when one is forced to stifle their true nature to placate a community terrified of change?
Q and A to follow
