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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Re: Yep

[scarletlobster.livejournal.com]

Lady Macbeth is quite a small part really, though. I think we remember 'great' Lady Macbeths simply because there are so few big Shakespearian roles for women. And I think Shakespeare would have been surprised by the way the role has been approached, since he wrote it for a teenage boy. Really I think being an actress was a pretty ghastly job until recently: there were far fewer roles for them than for the men, and even fewer really strong parts.