Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

By Taylor Mac

“Fabulous and
bedraggled: a defiant and beautiful mess… Welcome to the world of Gary: A
Sequel to Titus Andronicus, where carnage and camp coexist.” —Jesse Green, New
York Times

 

In Gary: A
Sequel to Titus Andronicus, Taylor Mac’s singular worldview intersects with
William Shakespeare’s first tragedy, Titus Andronicus. Set during the
fall of the Roman Empire, Mac’s extraordinary play picks up where Shakespeare’s
blood-soaked tale left off: the coup has ended, the country has been stolen by
madmen, and there are casualties everywhere. Two lowly servants, Gary and
Janice, are charged with cleaning up the bodies. It’s the year 400—but it feels
like the end of the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Release date: Feb 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781559369404

Taylor Mac

Taylor Mac (who uses “judy”, lowercase sic, not as a name but as a gender pronoun) is a playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, performance artist, director and producer. Judy’s work has been performed at New York City’s Lincoln Center, The Public Theater and Playwrights Horizons, Los Angeles’ Royce Hall, Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater, Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, Boston’s American Repertory Theatre, Stockholm’s Sodra Theatern, the Spoleto Festival, San Francisco’s Curran Theater and MOMA, amongst others. Taylor is the author of seventeen full-length plays and performance pieces including A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Hir (placed on the top ten theater of 2015 lists of The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Time Out NY; published by North Western University Press and in American Theater Magazine), The Lily’s Revenge, The Walk Across America for Mother Earth, The Young Ladies Of, Red Tide Blooming, The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac and – in collaboration with Mandy Patinkin, Susan Stroman and Paul Ford – Mac created The Last Two People On Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville.

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