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Apr

The GENDER BENDER Variation: Twelfth Night, Act 1 - Switched Gender!

   Posted by: Ina Centaur   in !Twelfth Night, Act 1

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As mentioned a while ago, we’re going to try a couple of Variations to Twelfth Night. We already tried the “Popular-Culture-Analogues-Edition” on April Fools Night, and now we’re trying the GENDER BENDER, i.e., a Switched-Gender-”Analogues” Edition of Twelfth Night! 6 PM, tonight the 14th! The casting goes like this (Recall that Mokey usually plays Viola, Kerry plays Olivia, Caliban plays Orsino, Captain, Toby, and Malvolio, and Ixmal plays Valentine, Andrew, and Feste):

Scene 1 -
Mokey: Orsino
Kerry: Valentine
Caliban: Curio

Scene 2:
Mokey: Captain
Caliban: Viola

Scene 3:
Mokey: Toby
Kerry: Andrew
Ixmal: Maria

Scene 4:
Mokey: Orsino
Kerry: Valentine
Caliban: Viola (as Cesario)

Scene 5 -
slightly shortened version -
** Maria only has her Feste/Maria lines in the opening (she doesn’t
do the hoist sail sir, and calls from backstage her announcement of
Cesario) - no Toby entrance in S5!
Mokey: Feste
Kerry: Malvolio Caliban: Viola (as Cesario)
Ixmal: Maria (the opening part only) & Olivia

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Ina Centaur
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T’was fun… though disorienting. (But we survived!)

April 14th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Ina Centaur
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In general, I think the “temperament” or “essence” of the character carried through despite the change in voice gender. I’ve grown too used to hearing a female or male voice for certain parts, that sometimes (when the other gender speaks for the role!) I had to look @ the script again to follow along what’s going on!

Some funny points (before I go off to tackle my taxes)… Here’s a voice recording of today’s GENDER BENDER.

Viola and Orsino seem like a really good match/switch.

Toby/Andrew sounding effeminate was rofl!
(And Kerry has totally got the Andrew laugh!)

Ixmal as Olivia and Caliban as Viola was confusing. They’ve got the air of it, to an extent, but I’ve grown so used to them playing other roles in this scene though..

April 14th, 2009 at 7:13 pm

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