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Article: Queen Lear? Why Not?
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 28, 1994
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Veteran actress Mikel Sarah Lambert won't soon forget getting
the invitation to play Lear at the Washington Shakespeare Company.
"{Director} Chris Henley called and said, `We're doing "Lear"
at the end of the season,' " says Lambert, who plays Shakespeare's
tragic king as a tempestuous queen.
"And I interrupted him and said, I'm so flattered you called,
and I have been so lucky because I've played all three daughters in
my career, but in my current... maturity, I just don't think I can
do that again.
"And Chris said, `Well, we weren't thinking about the
daughters. We're talking about the parent.' "
Henley says the young company decided to attempt a sex-changed
"Lear" because "the ...