Re: The Demonization of Shakespeare

On 09/07/2025 17:04, Paul S Person wrote:

On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 23:28:38 +0100, Robert Carnegie
<rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
 

In some British actor's recent memoir that
I heard on radio, I've forgotten who, the
school drama was similarly cast,

(with young men in female eoles)

since that's
all that they had.  I also don't remember if
he was Juliet or Cleopatra or Lady Macbeth,
but apparently the male lead role was a
good-looking young man.
>
Ian McKellen?
>
Gregory Doran?

 The film /Bridge on the River Kwai/ does something like that. The book
/King Rat/ goes a bit farther.
 And I'm not even going to mention /Mrs. Doubtfire/ and other films
that play with the idea but aren't really the same thing.

Well...  I had in mind, not shows where the male
lead falls for the female who is actually a man
in drag (I think that would be _Tootsie_ as well)
but where the male actor in the female role
falls for the male role actor, who probably is
straight, but any kissing or cuddling is fully
enjoyed by at least one of the players.  ;-)