Two reasons this caught my attention: I'm currently working my way through Shakespear's plays, and I'm currently obsessed with the musical Six and this gave off a similar vibe.
Joy McCullough does an amazing job giving these characters their own voices. And giving them the opportunity to rewrite their stories was simply the best thing.
As they mention themselves, in their original stories they're mainly just props used by men in a play written by a man. A man who was really weird when it came to writing women, and McCullough really emphasized that fact. So hearing them tell it themselves, as opposed to all the other retelling out there that just attempt to make them look better than originally written, truly made them their own person and gave depth to characters who are just as important to the story that treated them expendable.
Personally, I'd love to hear more from the other women beneath that trap door.
Joy McCullough does an amazing job giving these characters their own voices. And giving them the opportunity to rewrite their stories was simply the best thing.
As they mention themselves, in their original stories they're mainly just props used by men in a play written by a man. A man who was really weird when it came to writing women, and McCullough really emphasized that fact. So hearing them tell it themselves, as opposed to all the other retelling out there that just attempt to make them look better than originally written, truly made them their own person and gave depth to characters who are just as important to the story that treated them expendable.
Personally, I'd love to hear more from the other women beneath that trap door.