Review: "Boy My Greatness" Brings Us Inside Shakespeare's Aery of Little Eyases
Boy My Greatness Written and directed by Zoe Senese-Grossberg Presented by The Firebird Project at Hudson Guild Theatre 441 W 26th St., Manhattan, NYC March 8-16, 2024 L to R: Leo Lion, Rae Bell, Benny Rendell, and Eli Wassertzug. Photo by Rafal Pustelny. In the playwright/director's note to her new play, Boy My Greatness , Zoe Senese-Grossberg makes the perspicacious observation that when we consider the performance practices in the commercial theaters of Shakespeare's England, "the focus seems to be on the absence of women rather than the presence of boys." Perhaps, in part, hindsight and a narrative of historical progress towards ever-greater equality position them as mere placeholders, always already destined to be supplanted by women actors. Boy players have been the subject of much academic scholarship but, ironically, little to no actual theater. Boy My Greatness rectifies this absence in magnificent fashion, sweeping audiences through an engrossing and affec...