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face=Georgia><FONT color=#181818>“Hamlet,” Act III, Scene
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face=Georgia>By featuring male and female twins in two of his comedies, “The
Comedy of Errors” and “Twelfth Night,” Shakespeare capitalized on the humor that
comes from mistaken identity and misdirection and the provocation found in
issues grounded in gender roles and social politics.<SPAN
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face=Georgia>By double-casting the title character in “Hamlet” with a male
(Jonathan Dyrud) and a female (Laura Welsh Berg) actor in alternating
performances, the only thing Great Lakes Theater director Charlie Fee meant to
capitalize on was his deep and diverse talent pool of performers.<SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT face=Georgia>Women have appeared in Shakespeare’s
plays since 1660, once Charles II officially granted permission to do so for two
theater companies in London.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
women have been earning critical acclaim for their portrayal of Hamlet since
1775, when the young Sarah Siddons toured the British provinces in the Prince of
Denmark’s codpiece and fine hosiery.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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color=#181818>Though this be madness, yet there is method in't,
for</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "> casting Hamlet in the feminine
allows the character to weep more unabashedly over the death of his father,
reveal more emotion while plotting the revenge he seeks by killing his murderous
uncle, and more boldly bare his vulnerabilities to the audience in splendidly
penned soliloquies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT face=Georgia>And such casting forces audiences to
look at and listen to this classic play more closely and from a different
vantage point, which may reveal a new understanding of the historic text as well
as contemporary attitudes toward gender.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT face=Georgia>All this happens in the Great Lakes
Theater production but, for Fee, the play’s the thing and his only concern about
having a male and a female Hamlet is how well they manage to play
him.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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