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Sat 07 Jul 2009Gentlemen of Venice
The Propeller company might use an all-male cast for Shakespeare, but its approach to the bard’s work is anything but traditional
TURN UP AT a Propeller production of a Shakespeare play without reading the programme and you might get rather a shock. The leading lady is likely to have chest hair, the love interest a deep baritone, and her maid a shiny bald head. Every part, in other words, is played by a man, just as it would have been in Elizabethan times.
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