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Sean San José Updates Shakespeare’s ‘Coriolanus’ for Today’s World
By Kilian Melloy | April 3, 2023
When the Play On Shakespeare initiative reached out to San Francisco-based queer theater maker Sean San José with an offer to take part in their effort to update the plays of Shakespeare with modern language “translations” of the Shakespearean canon, José – a co-founder of Campo Santo, which produces work intended to question and challenge, and now the first person of color to serve as artistic director for the revered Magic Theatre – had his doubts.
