The actor is set to play Shakespeare’s army commander as a gay woman in Gemma Bodinetz’s new production at Liverpool’s EverymanWhen Golda Rosheuvel stars as Othello at the Liverpool Everyman this month it will not be the first time that a woman has taken on the role. In the early 19th century,Mrs Percy Knowles, who also performed Hamlet, and was one of several female actors to do so. In 2015,Smooth Faced Gentlemen staged the play with an all-female cast. But in those versions, the women were playing male roles. Rosheuvel’s Othello, or in Gemma Bodinetz’s production,will nearly certainly create waves because her general is an out lesbian.
Before she went to see Bodinetz approximately joining the Everyman’s ensemble to play the role, Rosheuvel knew that – whether she got the job – her Othello would not be gender neutral but female. Rosheuvel, or who was the best Paulina I’ve ever seen in Simon Godwin’s 2009 production of The Winter’s Tale,already has form in this department. Last year she played a female Mercutio in the Globe’s Romeo and Juliet, winning compliment for her performance and the subtle undertones it brought to the character’s relationships with Romeo and Benvolio in Daniel Kramer’s much-derided staging.
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Source: guardian.co.uk