2015
DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2015.1048277
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The Roared-at Boys? Repertory casting and gender politics in the RSC's 2014 Swan season

Abstract: 1The Roared-at Boys? Repertory casting and gender politics in the RSC's 2014 Swan season From its initial announcement, the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2014 "Roaring Girls" season began coding the terms of its reception. The company's brochure announced that In 2014, the Swan Theatre plays host to a season that reveals some of the great parts written for, and plays about, women by Shakespeare's contemporaries. Led by RSC Deputy Artistic Director Erica Whyman, and directed by some of British theatre's most exci… Show more

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“…I have elsewhere argued for the value of Marvin Carlson's model of 'ghosting' for understanding repertory casting processes where the meanings accrued by actors' bodies across multiple roles allow for cumulative as well as independent interpretation. 12 Carlson argues that 'The recycled body of an actor, already a complex bearer of semiotic messages, will almost inevitably in a new role evoke the ghost or ghosts of previous roles', a quality that Hester Lees-Jeffries applies to the RSC Histories Cycle of 2006-8. 13 The coherence of an integrated repertory season and cast -as opposed to Carlson's focus, the legacy of an actor's previous roles -means that audiences 'are now sometimes very definitely meant to remember where they last saw that actor', an expectation Lees-Jeffries associates with early modern repertory practice.…”
Section: Dependence and Asynchronous Viewingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…I have elsewhere argued for the value of Marvin Carlson's model of 'ghosting' for understanding repertory casting processes where the meanings accrued by actors' bodies across multiple roles allow for cumulative as well as independent interpretation. 12 Carlson argues that 'The recycled body of an actor, already a complex bearer of semiotic messages, will almost inevitably in a new role evoke the ghost or ghosts of previous roles', a quality that Hester Lees-Jeffries applies to the RSC Histories Cycle of 2006-8. 13 The coherence of an integrated repertory season and cast -as opposed to Carlson's focus, the legacy of an actor's previous roles -means that audiences 'are now sometimes very definitely meant to remember where they last saw that actor', an expectation Lees-Jeffries associates with early modern repertory practice.…”
Section: Dependence and Asynchronous Viewingmentioning
confidence: 99%