Bad-history plays are a thing now. By "bad" I don't mean poorly researched, but ones incongruously reframed for comic or deconstructive effect (Drunk History, but arty). Out with period fidelity and realism (itself a fiction), in with hip-hop Founding Fathers or, in Men on Boats, a 10-man expeditionary team played by women. (In a similar vein, Lucas Hnath went emo on young Isaac Newton and Little Lord lampooned colon…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:02PM on August 1, 2016