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Tamsin Greig's gender-bending Twelfth Night

Name: Tamsin Greig's gender-bending Twelfth Night
Uploaded: 2017-02-24T17:15:32.112Z
Duration: 5 min 41 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: Gender-blind casting means better roles for women — but is it a gimmick?

Tamsin Greig plays 'Malvolia' in Twelfth Night at the National Theatre. We talk cross-gender casting with Simon Godwin, the play's director, and to Kathryn Hunter, the first woman to play King Lear in 1997.

February 24, 2017

Produced by Griselda Murray Brown. Filmed by Richard Topping and Petros Gioumpasis. Edited by Richard Topping. Pictures by Marc Brenner, Alastair Muir, Jonathan Keenan and Marilyn Kingwill/ArenaPAL. Footage from the National Theatre. 'Twelfth Night' will be broadcast live on April 6 by NT Live.