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509 - Adah Isaacs Menken

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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Oi, I'm a Theatre Horse.

The final scene in this play, the boy is stripped of his clothes, lashed on the back of a horse, ridden up to cliffs, and the disappears in the clouds. She vows to never again be a victim or sacrifice anything for the male dominated society. Since she was playing boy, it wasn't the same as if she was portraying a naked woman,. Cause naked women couldn't appear on the stage. But since she was a boy, then that gave it a passso i love these again, thes o a string ever.

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