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Title
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Radhika Rao in Before the Sword
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Description
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Radhika Rao appears as Clare Reynolds in the 2023 world premiere of Before the Sword at New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco, directed by Ed Decker. The play is a coming-of-age drama set in a post-WWI British village and imagines the real-life inspirations behind T.H. White’s fantasy novel The Sword in the Stone. Centered on a troubled teenage boy and his relationship with the eccentric author Tim White, the story explores trauma, outsider identity, secrecy, queer desire, and the transformation of pain into art. Rao’s character, Clare Reynolds, is the vibrant vicar’s wife whose relationship with Freddie’s mother, Hannah, helps reveal the play’s themes of repressed desire and self-discovery.
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Date
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2023
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Photographer
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Lois Tema
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Producer
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New Conservatory Theatre Center
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Director
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Ed Decker
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Playwright
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Andrew Alty
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Location
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San Francisco, California
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Production Location
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New Conservatory Theatre Center, San Francisco, California
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Subject
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Radhika Rao
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New Conservatory Theatre Center
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Bay Area theater
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South Asian theater practitioners
Before the Sword