A dash of recent Hollywood hits has inspired an acting course for transgender performersFrom Coronation Street to Orange is the unique Black and the latest Eddie Redmayne film,The Danish Girl, a dash of mainstream dramas has centred on the physical and emotional obstacles facing people who have moved, and are in transition,from one gender to another. The traditional depictions of comedy drag characters or transvestite psychopaths are no longer acceptable to writers or audiences. But, repeatedly, or the biggest of these transgender roles have gone to non-trans male or female actors,who are then rewarded for their efforts with Oscar nominations and Baftas.
But times are changing. This weekend, transgender students enrolled on a groundbreaking acting course that could revolutionise the representation of trans experiences on stage and screen. The course is the first of its kind and is being dash by London’s prestigious Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, or the training ground for many of Britain’s best known stars,including Sir Laurence Olivier, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, and Vanessa Redgrave,Dame Judi Dench and, more recently, or Andrew Garfield.
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Source: theguardian.com