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Innovative theatre is a popular attraction for residents and guests in the hotels of New York USA. The Queen’s Company is a New York based all female classical theatre company. This dynamic company provides great entertainment in an almost reverse structure to what many of these classical plays were originally presented. For a great deal of classical theatre’s history, well actually, there’s a definition waiting to be reached as frequently on the academic side classical theatre refers to that of ancient Greece and Rome though in general usage it is used in a much broader sense, much like that of classical music, but that’s not the point, throughout much of theatre’s history the parts in plays were only performed by men. There’s also something to be said for long sentences, but again, that’s not the point here. Young male apprentices generally played the female parts while in later periods, though still frequently referred to as classical, such as the Renaissance some of the leading male actors would perform the major female roles like Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth.

So, the Queen’s Company is a daringly inventive company that brings classic works to the contemporary stage in an all female cast. Logically it follows that this is the case for the production that’s about to open on their stage, The Wonder. The play was written by Susanna Centlivre who also happened to be living when females could actually perform onstage. She was an English actress and writer who was one of the premier playwrights of the 18th century. Her career was mostly centered around London’s Drury Lane Theatre and she was so successful that she became known as the second woman of the English stage. Of course this begs the question of who is the first woman of the English stage and the answer is Aphra Behn. Meanwhile, Centlivre, the silver medallist or more appropriately the palm frond, enjoyed a highly respected and successful career. The production of her play The Wonder but the Queen’s Company is scheduled to open on the 26th of this month.