Lawrie's acting

[jumpingpowder.livejournal.com]

Sorry to interrupt the readthrough! I recently saw an all-female Shakespeare production and it struck me that all the parts Lawrie longs for are the male parts. The ones she will never get another chance at after the gender-freedom of a girls' school. In fact Tim (?)points this out re Caliban. - "'she won't [get another chance], you know. It's a man's part'. This was incontrovertible..." I bet Hotspur would have suited her, too. Poor Lawrie!

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[jackmerlin.livejournal.com]

None of the plays they do at Kingscote have any decent female roles in them. Female actresses to this day moan about the lack of really good roles for women. Even girls' schools don't go looking for plays with good female characters in!
I can imagine Lawrie being Lady Macbeth later on.