Twelfth Night Propeller.
| Publisher | Shakespeare Bulletin |
| Publication | Shakespeare Bulletin |
| Subject | Arts, visual and performing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0748-2558 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Published | 2008-03-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Reviewee | n/a | Jason Baughan |
| Author | n/a | Gregory Blume |
| Reviewee | n/a | Dugald Bruce-Lockhart |
| Reviewee | n/a | Joe Flynn |
| Reviewee | n/a | Edward Hall |
| Reviewee | n/a | Chris Myles |
| Reviewee | n/a | Propeller |
| Reviewee | n/a | Simon Scardifield |
| Reviewee | n/a | William Shakespeare |
| Reviewee | n/a | Tam Williams |
Twelfth Night Propeller, March 17-April 1, 2007.
Shakespeare's original London theater audiences were accustomed to seeing boy actors play the female roles. And, while audience members were never completely unaware that they were watching cross-dressed males, they were presumably able to suspend their disbelief enough to become imaginatively absorbed in the story being played before them. It can be difficult today for an all-male company to elicit such imaginative engagement, since the modern theater audience has not been conditioned to ignore the gender of the actors. It is...
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