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a comic role for you. i mean, first of all, do you like all be getting into costume and being made up until the rest of it? it s a crescendo. in the rehearsal process you have the rehearsals in the rooms and then you go onto the stage and you have your costume fittings and all of a sudden, you are in your costume and you re in your make up and you are portraying a character set that is when the fun really does begin. to ever get nervous? well, i certainly think i have a nervousness that takes me to certain limit that will not hamper anything i have to do on the stage. so the adrenaline is a good adrenaline and it is a good nervousness. we are all warming up in our dressing rooms and excited to go on the stage, really. and is there anything that can beat performing in a live opera in costume, for you? well, funnily enough, you can see my palate for the next week.
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a day, what are your favourite ones? you re actors, artists, you work with language, what are your favourite words? i should have known you were going to ask this. did you not prepare this answer? i always liked the word candelabra, and i don t know why. and it s not useful. it s not that useful anymore! slainte is a good word, that s an irish word. they re both very good words. on the one hand, it seems impossible to imagine that you d ever have a situation where a government would limit the number of words that we re all able to use a day as individuals. except go back a few years, it would have been impossible to imagine that we would have lived under a situation where governments told us all to stay at home during covid. right, exactly, yeah. and this play was written in 2015. it s so fascinating that sam wrote. i mean, this is not in any way a play about the pandemic but obviously during the rehearsal process, you can t help but align and draw comparisons. apparently it s been rea
and transgender all play the leading roles, including the all-white male signers of the declaration, including john adams and thomas jefferson. as the times piece put it, the show, quote, was hoping to spark a conversation about power and representation and it has, if not quite in the way it intended. the show had already made some adjustments during its development following the murder of george floyd by police and the national discussion that it sparked, including bringing in a black co-director, jeffrey page, to work alongside the original director, diane paulis, who s asian american. two weeks after opening to what the times says is mixed reviews and soft sales, one of the show s ignited controversy. a filipino american who plays edward rutledge was quoted in an interview saying during the rehearsal process, quote, there was harm done and labeled some of the staging decisions as