Artist Development and Collective Therapy in the Repertory

This article discusses the exploration of the repertory model in Tom Stuart’s 2019 play After Edward, produced at Shakespeare’s Globe. Performed in repertory with a production of Edward II, After Edward dramatizes Diana Taylor’s sense of repertoire; the embodied skills of the actor and the heterochronic site of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse allow Stuart as actor and writer to reconcile his lived experience as a gay man with his work as an actor. Based on this case study, this article argues that After Edward enacts a praxis of ensemble as artist development.