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Article: Well, hell... nobody's perfect
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 11, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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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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