#marcel spears

Season 8 Episode 20 "Welcome to Goodbye"

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They’re going to be utterly aghast, they’re going to be completely taken on a ride. I think what James does so beautifully is he honors the source material, but in adding the lenses of Blackness and queerness, he allows us to live in a different space, to take turns and make choices that I think would definitely surprise the audience. I think there’s a lot of service to the theatre and Shakespeare nerds, but there’s so many surprises. Even Opal, played by Adrianna Mitchell, is a version of Ophelia that is unlike any Ophelia I’ve ever seen. I think James made that choice intentionally, because the women in his life who would have been a kind of Ophelia just didn’t operate the way that we’ve seen Ophelia operate before. The way of feeling and navigating the world as a Black woman and the experiences that she’s lived are different. I think James makes consciously different choices with all of the characters like that. It honors the source, but still tells a very different story that I think everybody can appreciate.

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