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Re: 63 Femslash

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AYRT

Probably de-anoning myself if anyone happens to be in the area, but I just did a production where Beatrice is the more butch one - she's very gay-looking and has all the lines about not being interested in men, while Benedick is a more feminine woman whose lines about not being interested in women come across as denial.

But of course in a looser adaptation, anything could happen.

Re: 63 Femslash

[(Anonymous)]

NA

Ohhhhh my goodness I love this! :D

May I ask how you handled the "it is a man's office" bit? Benedick offering to kill her bro for Beatrice's sake is So Important to the ship dynamic, but it's a bit trickier to set that up without the most obvious reason why Beatrice can't do it herself.

Re: 63 Femslash

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

WHOOPS ANONFAIL

We just cut that line. It didn't feel weird to any of us; even with a mixed-sex army, Benedick is still a soldier and Beatrice isn't. We did keep the "God, that I were a man" speech, because what with all the men ganging up on Hero in the wedding scene, it's still a reasonable reaction; it's just that all of her lines are a little less in the way of needling Benedick for not acting sooner.

Re: 63 Femslash

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh, I see! Thank you, that's really neat!

Re: 63 Femslash

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Happy to talk about the production all day, if you have more questions :D I think it worked really well, and now it'll be weird for me for a while to see a male Benedick. I did overhear one night a woman in the audience very earnestly explaining to her companion that in the original, Benedick is a man - so I guess it worked for other people too!

Re: 63 Femslash

[(Anonymous)]

DA Please feel free to talk about that production, anon! It sounds fascinating.

Re: 63 Femslash

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Oh, um, not sure exactly what you want me to talk about? But there was something really nice about everyone wanting a lesbian couple to get together, and not because they're the only two lesbians* (even if they may be) but because lol wouldn't they be so TERRIBLE/GREAT together. The production also had Hero rejecting Claudio at the end, so the lesbian couple getting together was the only thing that made it a Comedy? Which was kind of cool and nice.

*I don't know if a decision was ever made about whether Benedick was gay or bi.

Re: 63 Femslash

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I love Hero rejecting Claudio at the end. YES, PLEASE. Was Don Pedro a girl, too + how did you handle him asking Beatrice out?

Re: 63 Femslash

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

No, Don Pedro remained male. We cut the "one of your father's getting" exchange, but not the proposal exchange as a whole, because its FANTASTICAL AWKWARDNESS is literally one of my favorite things in the play.