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Re: 63 Femslash

[(Anonymous)]

Beatrice/f!Benedick is so good.

Re: 63 Femslash

[(Anonymous)]

Benedick played by a butch woman would be really cool. I'd like to see an adaptation or a staging that worked with Beatrice and Benedick as two out gay women, where part of their performative hatred is about them being annoyed that their friends assumed that the only two queer girls in the friend group would automatically date. Or because of disagreements about community politics, or maybe they have an ex in common... There's room for a lot of different stories, is all I'm saying.

Re: 63 Femslash

[(Anonymous)]

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.