from Shakespeare for Everyone<\/h2>\n

By PIA CATTON
\nThe Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n

<\/a>In The Queen\u2019s Company\u2019s As You Like It<\/em>, cross-dressing goes even deeper than Shakespeare intended: the cast is entirely female. Actors are dressed to reflect their character\u2019s gender, but the casting gives women roles they wouldn\u2019t otherwise land. Director Rebecca Patterson, who founded The Queen\u2019s Company in 2000 to present all-female classical theater, says women are especially good at evoking the nuances and intricacies of relationships and characters. \u201cMale classical actors might be better at playing men. But women are better at playing human beings,\u201c said Ms. Patterson. \u201cAnd Shakespeare is about human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from Shakespeare for Everyone By PIA CATTON The Wall Street Journal In The Queen\u2019s Company\u2019s As You Like It, cross-dressing goes even deeper than Shakespeare intended: the cast is entirely female. Actors are dressed to reflect their character\u2019s gender, but the casting gives women roles they wouldn\u2019t otherwise land. Director Rebecca Patterson, who founded The Queen\u2019s Company in 2000 to… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":97,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-282","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp-qc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp-qc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp-qc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp-qc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp-qc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp-qc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp-qc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/282\/revisions\/537"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp-qc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodstuff1901.com\/wp-qc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}