Throughout, Shakespeare and the Suffragists nods to feminism’s slow, often inequitable gains. I see a woman may be made a fool / If she had not a spirit to resist.” For me, I’ll not be gone till I please myself. You may be jogging whiles your boots are green. Benavides strides in, grabs a boot off the shelf, and delivers a Katherine monologue-a fusion of a couple speeches from Acts III and IV-that concludes, “The door is open, sir.
There’s a bust of Shakespeare atop a bookcase of antique tomes. The screen goes dark, then opens on a slightly cluttered dressing room with a wardrobe pushed into a corner. She’s furious about either conforming to society’s standards or being labeled as a lunatic.” Demerson, from the lower left corner, chimes in: “She’s hard, but the world has made her hard, right? What does she have to lose?” Benavides, now at the bottom right, says, “So she tells him, ‘Go! Leave! Walk out that door!’ ” At the top left, Harris, sporting a short brunette bob and red lipstick, commiserates with the often-maligned heroine: “Kate’s a misfit in this world. Together they form a veritably Zoom-like Greek chorus of socially distanced suffragists. The screen splits into four cells, and Benavides is joined by her three costars: Maryam Baig, Meagan Harris, and Stormi Demerson. “I’m angry now with the roles that we’ve been assigned, as an American woman but doubly as a Latina, how pressured we feel to be feminine and beautiful, or else we have no value.”
“If you were to take me back four hundred years, I’d be angry too,” she continues.
She wears a ruffled white top with a long red skirt, and her hair is swirled into a loose Victorian bun-but in this scene, she’s breaking character and speaking as herself.
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I love it when women are pains in the ass.” A third of the way into Shakespeare Dallas’s new virtual production Shakespeare and the Suffragists, which commemorates the hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, Benavides is clad in full 1910s getup. I want us all to be feisty and opinionated. “People say she’s feisty and opinionated. “I love to play Katherine, from The Taming of the Shrew,” says Gloria Vivica Benavides, looking straight into the camera.
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