Brutus and Other Heroines: Playing Shakespeare's Roles for Women
Language: English
Published by Nick Hern Books, 2016
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Award-winning actress Harriet Walter shares insights gleaned from her vast experience of performing some of Shakespeare's most famous roles - both male and female.
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- Title
- Brutus and Other Heroines: Playing Shakespeare's Roles for Women
- Author
- Harriet Walter
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1848422938
- ISBN 13
- 9781848422933
For Walter, the solution was to ignore the dictates of centuries of tradition, and to begin playing the mature male characters. Her Brutus in an all–female Julius Caesar at the Donmar Warehouse was widely acclaimed, and was soon followed by Henry IV. What, she asks, can an actress bring to these roles – and is there any fundamental difference in the way they must be played?
In Brutus and Other Heroines, Walter discusses each of these roles – both male and female – from the inside, explaining the particular choices she made in preparing and performing each character. Her extraordinarily perceptive and intimate accounts illuminate each play as a whole, offering a treasure trove of valuable insights for theatregoers, scholars and anyone interested in how the plays work on stage. Aspiring actors, too, will discover the many possibilities open to them in playing these magnificent roles.
The book is an exploration of the Shakespearean canon through the eyes of a self-identified 'feminist actor' – but, above all, a remarkable account of an acting career unconstrained by tradition or expectations. It concludes with an affectionate rebuke to her beloved Will: 'I cannot imagine a world without you. I just wish you had put more women at the centre of your world/stage… I would love you to come back and do some rewrites.'
'A glorious reminder that genuine diversity on stage offers astonishing creative benefits… Harriet Walter is mesmerising in one play after another, bringing her classical training to bear as a conflicted Brutus, then a Henry IV who wears his crown heavily, and finally a Prospero who knows that the steel bars of prison are resistant to all magic… this is genuinely art to enchant' The Guardian on the Donmar Warehouse's Shakespeare Trilogy
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About the Author
Harriet has created roles in new plays including Arcadia by Tom Stoppard and Yasmina Reza's Life x 3 (National), Timberlake Wertenbaker's Three Birds Alighting on a Field (Royal Court), Stephen Lowe's adaptation of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Joint Stock), Moira Buffini's Dinner (National and West End), Simon Gray's The Late Middle Classes, Stephen Poliakoff's Sweet Panic, Tamsin Oglesby's US 'nd Them (Hampstead), and Clara Brennan's Boa opposite her husband, Guy Paul (Trafalgar Studios).
Her films include The Sense of an Ending, Mindhorn, Denial, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Suite Française, Man Up, The Wedding Video, Young Victoria, Babel, Villa des Roses (British Independent Film Award nomination), Sense and Sensibility and Louis Malle's Milou en Mai. Her television work ranges from The Imitation Game by Ian McEwan and The Cherry Orchard (both directed by Richard Eyre), The Price (Channel 4 and RTÉ), Harriet Vane in the BBC's Lord Peter Wimsey series and The Men's Room, via guest appearances in Inspector Morse, Waking the Dead, Spooks, Poirot, Midsomer Murders and New Tricks, to more recent appearances as D.I. Natalie Chandler in Law and Order: UK, Little Dorrit, Downton Abbey, Black Sails, Call the Midwife and as Clementine Churchill in the Netflix series The Crown.
Her other books are Other People's Shoes (Nick Hern Books), Macbeth (Faber and Faber's 'Actors on Shakespeare' series) and Facing It: Reflections on Images of Older Women (Facing It Publications).
Harriet is an Honorary Associate Artist of the RSC, an Honorary D.Litt at Birmingham University, and was awarded a CBE in 2000 and a Damehood in 2011.
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