Publisher's Synopsis
We've always been around.
Some people may want to tell you otherwise, but LGBTQ+ individuals have always been a part of history, all over the world. Made in Mythology is a collection of ten short plays for preteen and teen audiences that are drawn from world mythology and folklore. From Greco-Roman plays to Japanese literary epics to Sumerian folklore, covering a wide swath of the beautiful tapestry that is the queer community. Designed for summer camps and other group activities serving LGBTQ+ youth, the pieces in this anthology are designed to be performed with limited resources and all ten heavily depend on a narrator who can carry the bulk of telling the story via dramatic reading.
Made in Mythology is not just an anthology of plays either. Each work is introduced with a brief rundown of each culture's folklore depicted, how that society made space for individuals we'd consider LGBTQ+ today, and an overview of theatrical traditions across time and place. But luckily kids putting these plays together will be having so much fun they won't even recognize how educational the experience is!
