Article: Well, hell... nobody's perfect

To know that a role has been created specifically with you in mind must be very flattering. Your smile of gratitude might falter a little, however, at the news that the character in question is a 260-year- old transvestite castrato. But Bette Bourne - renowned drag queen and Obie-winning founder of Bloolips - finds this legendary eunuch-diva, Zambinella, such a rewarding role and one with so many personal overtones that he is about to play it for a second time in the rewritten, re-scored and redesigned version of Sarrasine, which will open at the Lyric Hammersmith next Wednesday.

We met during a rehearsal lunch-break. Bourne insists that he is not a female impersonator but "a gay man in a ...

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