caa a22 4500 388094095 CHVBK 20180307125300.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199908 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266464X00012999 doi S0266464X00012999 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266464X00012999 Brown John Russell Cross-Dressed Actors and their Audiences: Kate Valk's Emperor Jones and William Shakespeare's Juliet [Elektronische Daten] [John Russell Brown] Male cross-dressing in leading female roles in the Elizabethan theatre has, at different extremes of modern stage practice, been either ignored as a no longer relevant convention or appropriated to make some kind of sexual-political statement. In either case, at issue is the ‘lifelikeness' or otherwise achieved, and how far modern deployment should or should not be taken to challenge our own assumptions. John Russell Brown takes a recent production by the Wooster Group, in which Kate Falk played the eponymous male lead in Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones, to suggest that cross-dressing can engage us with other perceptions of reality altogether - and demand, in relation to Shakespearean performance, a reading of the text that responds to resonances more often ignored or avoided. He illustrates his argument with close reference to the presentation and representation of sexuality in Romeo and Juliet. John Russell Brown was the first professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham and, subsequently, Associate Director at the National Theatre in London. More recently he has taught and directed in the USA, New Zealand, and Asia. He is now based in London, and is Consultant in Theatre at Middlesex University. His most recent book is New Sites for Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience and Asia (Routledge, 1999) and his most recent theatre work a production of Surrena Goldsmith's Blue for the Wandsworth Arts Festival (November 1998) and an acting and Living Newspaper workshop for the National School of Drama in Delhi (March 1999). Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/3(1999-08), 195-203 0266-464X 15:3<195 1999 15 NTQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00012999 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00012999 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Brown John Russell NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/3(1999-08), 195-203 0266-464X 15:3<195 1999 15 NTQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge