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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[intrepid--fox.livejournal.com]

Only I suspect she'd prefer to play the King, which is a smaller role, but would allow her scope to convey a more complex range of emotions.

All the twins' thinking around gender is a little odd, of course, so I find it difficult to know whether Lawrie's preference for male parts really does say something about her gender identity or is simply her version of Nicola's decided preference for boys

[lilliburlero.livejournal.com]

I think she'd make a very good King Henry too, but I don't know who'd do Hal then (Nicola? Though that would be weird: all Lawrie's make-up skills would be necessary, I think! Maybe Miranda for Hal and Nicola for Hotspur. I think Nick would approve of Hotspur.) I think Hal can be very complex if you get the balance between Machiavellian schemer and good-time boy right (it might be one Lawrie would completely flub out on, Ariel-style, too.)

[(Anonymous)]

How about Edmund in King Lear? With Nicola as Edgar. Bit unlikely for Kingscoteunl but I bet she'd have fun.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, tablet hijacked my post. Conventional spelling of Kingscote intended, and should have been signed Sorrel.

[intrepid--fox.livejournal.com]

Actually you could do a really interesting production with identical Hal and Hotspur, identifiable by their different uniforms or something. It would bring out th esimilariities nd differences between the characters.

And you're right, Lear would work, too, for the same reason.