REVIEW: Body So Fluorescent at Buddies in Bad Times
In Cordner’s capable hands, a Jekyll and Hyde situation starts to seem like a sort of demonic possession.
In Cordner’s capable hands, a Jekyll and Hyde situation starts to seem like a sort of demonic possession.
“From the moment I decided I wanted to act in the fifth grade until my graduation from theatre school twelve years later, I never had the opportunity to play a character that was written for someone who looks like me.”
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“What do you do with desire in a marriage where you cannot fuck your husband without the consequences being disfigurement and death?”
We are in an industry that is inherently archaic. Performers still fear speaking up because of the worry of being seen as difficult, the fear that their careers will be put in jeopardy.
This man is well-known and respected. He has wealth and status. You know him, but I’ll tell you about him anyway.
I always knew I wanted to act, but it wasn’t something I ever thought would be possible because I never had anyone like me to look up to.
Some people have sought me out to tell me that I will never be a great writer until I understand that men and women are simply different.
It is a rare privilege to be afforded the opportunity to make my race and gender neither invisible nor central.
I couldn’t just put on a moustache and hope for the best. I was having my professional Shakespeare debut as the Dauphin of France at the fucking Stratford Festival of Canada.
I was six years old when I started wearing women’s costume jewelry. Later, at my Catholic elementary school, I learned that this was called “foreshadowing.”
I am revelling in Romeo. I have discovered there is a part of me that is unafraid to take up space.
“It’s a struggle, sometimes, to be like, My wife is the consistent breadwinner in the family.”
Lately I’ve started responding to such inquiries with ethereal (and possibly irritating) catchphrases like “timeless” and “as old as the universe.”
It happened. The UK is leaving the EU. Britain has left the building.