SCOTTISH PLAY SCOTT A transgender twist to Woyzeck

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   SCOTTISH PLAY SCOTT A transgender twist to Woyzeck
by Scott C. Morgan, Windy City Times
2011-04-20
      
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=31473

Brooklyn-based transgender playwright Sylvan Oswald was always writing "trouser roles" into his earlier plays. However, with Pony, a world-premiere drama presented by About Face Theatre as part a larger Woyzeck Project festival around Chicago, Oswald felt secure enough to feature transgender characters outright.

"I was really interested in female masculinity," Oswald said about his earlier trouser-role characters of women portraying men. It was a way for Oswald to counter stereotypical representations of women just as girlfriends or wives. "I was interested in butch-ness and androgyny."