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Title: Boys who like girls to be boys . . .
Post by: LostInTime on August 28, 2007, 08:15:39 AM
Post by: LostInTime on August 28, 2007, 08:15:39 AM
Times Online (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article2324646.ece)
Lucy Powell
"There are infinite ways to play gender." He explains: "It can be ravishingly sexy, it can be very precisely unsexed. Some of my casting is completely true to type. Lady Olivia [Justine Mitchell] is an extraordinary, thoroughbred woman. Count Orsino [Jason Mer-rells] is a gorgeous man, but they're playing opposite a Viola [Chris New] who is very obviously an attractive young man with false tits. It releases proceedings from the grip of naturalism immediately."
Lucy Powell
"There are infinite ways to play gender." He explains: "It can be ravishingly sexy, it can be very precisely unsexed. Some of my casting is completely true to type. Lady Olivia [Justine Mitchell] is an extraordinary, thoroughbred woman. Count Orsino [Jason Mer-rells] is a gorgeous man, but they're playing opposite a Viola [Chris New] who is very obviously an attractive young man with false tits. It releases proceedings from the grip of naturalism immediately."
Title: Re: Boys who like girls to be boys . . .
Post by: Melissa on August 28, 2007, 11:06:31 AM
Post by: Melissa on August 28, 2007, 11:06:31 AM
Very interesting article. In the musical I'm in, there's actually 3 girls who are playing boy parts, so as you can imagine, there's a lot of cross-gender type of talk. I find it interesting since I'm in stealth and I can talk about people playing the opposite gender, yet nobody questions my gender, which is really cool. Unfortunately, with my costume I need to completely hide my hair underneath a handkerchief, and I was hardly wearing any makeup yesterday (just eyeliner) and to me it was hard to see anything but the old male face, yet still nobody questioned my gender, which I found amazing because I was so nervous. I even danced with a cute guy I find attractive. On top of that, I ended up having several conversations about those women who dress up as guys (complete with male wig) on things they could do to appear more masculine. Of course, I wasn't going to offer my credentials, so unfortunately my ideas weren't given much credence. ::)