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Nadine Garner plays Viola - a woman caught up in a game of love that becomes tricky to navigate as genders ebb and flow.
Harriet Walter looks back at her acting career with Barbara Bogaev, focusing on Gender in Shakesepeare and the all-female production of Julius Caesar she starred in for the Donmar in 2012 and which was later...
In 1990, the Mabou Mines theatre group worked to perform an abridged version of King Lear directed by Lee Breuer featuring gender-reversed roles and set in 1950s America. The film follows the director Lee...
Video recording of a production of the Shakespeare tragedy by the Glasgow University Shakespeare Society featuring a woman in the title role.
Educational videotape. Casting often determines where an audience’s sympathy lies; choosing an actor to play a major role like Richard II or Bolingbroke can be a complex procedure, often requiring a...
A television version of Robert Wilson’s 2009 stagework in which he has selects 24 of Shakespeare’s sonnets to perform and illustrate. In ‘Sonette’ the women play men and men play women. Inge...
Independent fantasy feature film. IAGA is a gender-reversed version of Othello retold in the style of a live-action graphic novel. Iaga secretly exposes the marriage between Desdemona and Othella, but when...
A video recording of Michel Docekal’s production of The Merchant of Venice. The role of Portia is played by David Prachar. No further details known (12/2007).
Podcast. Pamela Hutchinson talks to Barbara Bogaev about the life and career of actress Asta Nielsen and her 1921 film version of Hamlet (qv), which depicted the title character as a princess.
Professor Tony Howard, University of Warwick, talks to Tom Abbott about the women who have played the role of Hamlet.
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