| re: New ‘Richard III’ Raises an Old Question: Who Should Wear the Crown? | |
| Last Edit: portenopete 02:03 pm EDT 05/23/24 | |
| Posted by: portenopete 01:57 pm EDT 05/23/24 | |
| In reply to: New ‘Richard III’ Raises an Old Question: Who Should Wear the Crown? - Unhookthestars 11:28 am EDT 05/23/24 | |
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| I'm looking forward to seeing Michelle Terry as Richard III. She's a terrific actress with scads of experience playing Shakespeare and to boot, she's the dame who's calling the shots at that playhouse. The fact that she's a woman playing a man doesn't bother me and the fact that she's a straight-spined person playing a crookback doesn't bother me either. Just like it didn't bug me when Daniel Monks gave a deeply moving performance as the presumably non-disabled Konstantin in Jamie's Lloyd's production of The Seagull or when Ali Stoker brought the house down zooming across the stage singing "I Cain't Say No" in the Daniel Fish Oklahoma! on Broadway. Or when Laurence Olivier gave his rich-throated, slightly campy and OTT Othello over fifty years ago. These actors' characteristics at birth pale in comparison to their imaginative force and prodigious presence onstage. Of course it is rich that Michelle Terry blames the foofaraw on the fact that she is a woman, so she is just adding to the victimization pile-on. It's probably disconcerting for White cisgendered women to discover that they are near the bottom of the victimization totem pole now. After decades of feeling ignored and unwanted, they are finding that they are more sinning than sinned-against. |
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