by Artists Repertory Theatre | Mar 19, 2026 | PATHWAYS
Amid growing concerns around consent, safety, and trust in our political climate, “The Bed Trick” by Keiko Green forces the audience to reckon with misinformation by magnifying the relationships between college roommates. This sharply-written show guides the reader...
by Artists Repertory Theatre | Mar 19, 2026 | PATHWAYS
The Bed Trick doesn’t want to suspend your disbelief, it seeks to challenge it. In today’s vast sea of Shakespeare retellings, playwright Keiko Green is interested in dissecting the gaps of the infamous All Well That Ends Well. Green’s take on the play...
by Artists Repertory Theatre | Mar 19, 2026 | PATHWAYS
In an interview with Chance Theater, playwright Keiko Green describes her play The Bed Trick as “Shakespeare in conversation with university consent culture” (Green 2023). The play came about as a reflection on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well after...
by Artists Repertory Theatre | Mar 19, 2026 | PATHWAYS
Somewhere between Shakespeare and a karaoke night, The Bed Trick slips between eras and tones, asking what does it mean to be “okay” with sex, in all its dubiously consensual forms, and what does it mean to be rewritten by it? The in-show pre-show gave us Elizabethan...
by Artists Repertory Theatre | Mar 19, 2026 | PATHWAYS
Once confronted with the question of the ethics within All’s Well That Ends Well, they weigh heavy on Harriett’s mind, affecting her ability to work soundly on the show through rehearsal. Her director responds, in an attempt to disregard her worries, that the show is...
