#boyet

The Public Theater’s Hamlet 

What stage roles would you love to play?

I have always wanted to do — I did it in school — Love Labour’s Lost; a character named Boyet was really cool, and I think I would do a good take on him. I love Macbeth — a lot of people would play Macduff, but I would play Macbeth. And I would love to be in a production of almost anything Eugene O’Neill, like I would love to be in The Hairy Ape or Long Day’s Journey Into Night, another big old fat four-hour play. … I like a four-hour show. I like knowing that I’m going to see a play or musical, and it will be rotund because I like that, and for the price of a theater ticket, [the audience] is getting their money's worth.

Robin Goodrin Nordli (far right), Boyet - re-gendered 

Love’s Labors Lost, directed by Shana Cooper (2011)

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Consider who the king your father sends,

To whom he sends, and what's his embassy:

Yourself, held precious in the world's esteem,

To parley with the sole inheritor

Of all perfections that a man may owe,

Matchless Navarre; the plea of no less weight

Than Aquitaine, a dowry for a queen.

Be now as prodigal of all dear grace

As Nature was in making graces dear

When she did starve the general world beside

And prodigally gave them all to you.

Who gave thee this letter?