How can women or people of colour find a voice in theatre’s classics when so much of the canon - written by white men - confines them to the sidelines? Meet the theatre makers who are reinventing the masterpiecesWe’re used to hearing works of art described as “timeless”. Bodinetz says that questions about how to deconstruct the show’s gender politics were “in the [rehearsal] room at all times”. In Paint Your Wagon, women play the testosterone-fuelled goldminers, men the fandango girls – implicitly questioning expectations of both roles. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Women and men both play gold prospectors in Gemma Bodinetz’s Liverpool production of Paint Your Wagon.

Source: The Guardian May 08, 2018 17:37 UTC