Brown University | Harley Elias on Performing Plague @brownuniversity | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 11 hours ago.
An MFA student in Playwriting, Harley Elias shares the development of his play, Scourge, a dark comedy about the forgotten histories of the bubonic plague. He brings together historical archives and the power of theater in a talk that shows how the plague may mirror aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This talk was part of Research Matters, featuring short talks about research by Brown University Graduate Students on April 18, 2024 at Brown University. For more information, please visit: https://graduateschool.brown.edu/