I was thinking the exact same thing yesterday, oddly enough. I'm reading and rereading some Shakespeare this winter (motive: Crommie's comment to Nicola re Dickens: 'Any educated person should have read at least some...') and have just finished reading then watching Macbeth (wish Kempe had done that in The Cricket Term, but prob just a tad dark). I'm not an actor, but would imagine if I were I'd be quite peeved not to be able to play Macbeth, Hamlet, Caliban, Mark Antony... (although in Hamlet Lawrie would probably want to play Claudius).
If Lawrie were a teenager in 2014, she'd probably be able to CrowdSource and set up her own female acting company with Tim as producer, doing Shakespeare and other classics with an all-female cast. Lady Macbeth, and Cleopatra, are excellent female parts, but even non-acting me at Lawrie's age in Cricket Term thought it was a swizz that most of the 'best' parts are male - if I were as passionate as Lawrie about acting, I'd be in quite the bate about it. (Although worse for Nicola I think re the Wrens and 'typing in uniform'.)
I've also just got Tim's quote about Macbeth's 'vaulting ambition' in the opening pages of Autumn Term...
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Date: 2014-11-29 02:04 am (UTC)If Lawrie were a teenager in 2014, she'd probably be able to CrowdSource and set up her own female acting company with Tim as producer, doing Shakespeare and other classics with an all-female cast. Lady Macbeth, and Cleopatra, are excellent female parts, but even non-acting me at Lawrie's age in Cricket Term thought it was a swizz that most of the 'best' parts are male - if I were as passionate as Lawrie about acting, I'd be in quite the bate about it. (Although worse for Nicola I think re the Wrens and 'typing in uniform'.)
I've also just got Tim's quote about Macbeth's 'vaulting ambition' in the opening pages of Autumn Term...