{"id":20322,"date":"2020-10-15T11:36:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=20322"},"modified":"2021-02-25T15:25:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T20:25:59","slug":"women-of-a-certain-age-or-older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2020\/10\/15\/women-of-a-certain-age-or-older\/","title":{"rendered":"Women of a Certain Age, or older"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>A little while ago, a Gentle Reader of this Tohu Bohu and I were having a conversation about Sir Ian McKellen being cast in the title role of <cite>Hamlet<\/cite> at an upcoming production at <a href=\"https:\/\/theatreroyalwindsor.co.uk\/\">Theatre Royal Windsor<\/a>. As you do, we mused about whether the rest of the cast would be age-appropriate (vaddevah dat means) and then started musing about who we would cast if we were to restrict the actors to people over the age of seventy. We enjoyed that a lot, but wound up frustrated by the clear fact that there are more great British (and Irish) Shakespearean actors over seventy who are women than there are parts for women in <cite>Hamlet<\/cite>, even if you do a reasonably amount of cross-casting. And then we decided that what would be really terrific would be an all-women over-seventy cast.\r\n<p>Here\u2019s what we came up with:\r\n<p>Hamlet: Glenda Jackson\r\n<p>Ophelia: Judi Dench\r\n<p>Claudius: Eileen Atkins\r\n<p>Gertrude: Francesca Annis\r\n<p>Polonius: Maggie Smith\r\n<p>Horatio: Rosemary Harris\r\n<p>Laertes: Harriet Walter\r\n<p>Player King: Janet Suzman\r\n<p>Second Player: Vanessa Redgrave\r\n<p>Ghost: Frances de la Tour\r\n<p>Osric: Penelope Wilton\r\n<p>Fortinbras: <strike>Diana Rigg<\/strike> (alas)\r\n<p>Gravediggers: Miriam Margolyes and Angela Lansbury\r\n<p>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: Sin\u00e9ad and Sorcha Cusack\r\n<p>Marcellus, Bernardo, Francisco: Joan Plowright, Sheila Hancock, Jane Lapotaire\r\n<p>Company: Judy Parfitt, Prunella Scales, Clare Bloom, Alison Steadman, Susan Dury, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Susan Hampshire, Angela Pleasance, Estelle Kohler, Brenda Blethyn, Julie Walters, Phyllida Law, Sian Phillips\r\n<p>I\u2019m inclined to have Julie Walters take over Fortinbras, although I suspect she would play it comic\u2014which would be very funny! But not necessarily how I would want the part played.\r\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t that be a lovely cast? They could totally do it as an internet virtual table read. I would watch the hell out of that.\r\n<p>I am bothering to write this up and post it on this sadly-neglected Tohu-Bohu of mine because the <a href=\"https:\/\/stannswarehouse.org\/show\/donmar-trilogy\/\">Donmar Trilogy<\/a>, productions of <cite>Julius Caesar<\/cite>, <cite>Henry IV<\/cite> and <cite>The Tempest<\/cite> starring youngest of that magnificent crew, Harriet Walter, with an all-female cast, is currently streaming for free. You have just a few hours left (as of writing) to watch <cite>JC<\/cite>, which I have now watched and highly recommend, although it will be available again on October 30-November 1. The cast is <i>amazing<\/i>. Even if none of them were seventy.\r\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I><br>-Vardibidian.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger really doesn't much like the whole virtual table read form, but would totally change my mind for this imaginary event.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20322"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20391,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20322\/revisions\/20391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}