Redressing the Balance: Gender in Shakespeare
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With recent productions of King Lear at the Old Vic, the Donmar\\u2019s trilogy of The Tempest, Henry IV and Julius Caesar, and our own Twelfth Night in mind, a panel questions the reasons for, and challenges of, swapping the gender for some of Shakespeare\\u2019s key roles, and whether this makes them more relevant or accessible for today\\u2019s audience. What can an actress bring to these roles \\u2013 and is there any fundamental difference in the way they must be played?
\\n\\nGuests include Maria Aberg, Samuel Barnett, and Harriet Walter, whose new book, Brutus and Other Heroines, is an exploration of the Shakespearean canon through the eyes of \\u2018a self-identified feminist actor\\u2019, as she describes herself.
\\n\\nChaired by Genista McIntosh.
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