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Hardcover Theater's mission is to create entertaining, thought-provoking, and stylistically original adaptations of literature for the stage. As part of this mission, we seek to:

• Celebrate the power and beauty of language.
• Promote literacy, reading, and historical understanding.
• Expand the vocabulary of the theater by experimenting with staging devices, especially "direct address," in which actors speak directly to the audience.

Our goals include:

• Finding dramatically compelling ways of putting the written word on stage.
• Remaining faithful to the spirit and, as much as possible, the language of the texts we adapt.
• Adapting texts from a wide range of genres, cultures, and historical periods.
• Encouraging communication and cross-fertilization between theatrical and non-theatrical literary communities by collaborating with local literary institutions.
• Developing presentations and programs for children in their schools.