{"id":1241,"date":"2021-07-30T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=1241"},"modified":"2022-06-06T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T15:38:10","slug":"she-witch-queen-of-a-lost-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=1241","title":{"rendered":"She: Immortal Witch-Queen of a Lost World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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full-length play produced in 2009 at the Bryant-Lake Bowl
based on the 1886 novel* (without the subtitle) by H. Rider Haggard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

review<\/a> in Twin Cities Daily Planet
“Because it eschews the lure of outrageous set design and prop-heaviness that a story like this is bound to inspire, the production instead makes a pact with the audience which fully engages their imagination.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the genres of fantasy and science fiction gained momentum in the late 19th<\/sup> and early 20th<\/sup> centuries, an important subgenre emerged: the so-called \u201clost world\u201d story, in which European or American adventurers discover hitherto-unknown civilizations. Examples include Edgar Rice Burroughs\u2019s A Princess of Mars<\/em> (brought to the stage for the first time by Hardcover Theater in 2005), Jules Verne\u2019s A Journey to the Center of the Earth<\/em>, H.G. Wells\u2019s The Country of the Blind<\/em>, and of course Sir Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s The Lost World<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By far the best of these tales is H. Rider Haggard\u2019s 1887 novel, She<\/em>, and now Hardcover brings it to the stage for the first time. In this amazing story, three Englishmen travel to Africa, where they encounter a strange culture ruled by an irresistible woman with supernatural powers. Can she really be more than 2000 years old? Hardcover\u2019s adaptation of this classic is loaded with action, suspense, comedy, and (dare we say it?) philosophy \u2013 like an Indiana Jones movie onstage, but with interesting characters and provocative themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

cast: 5M, 2F (representing a cast of thousands)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* never before, to the best of our knowledge, adapted for the theater<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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