... she played Shakespeare's, King Richard the II at the National Theatre. This is a typical gender challenging production where she says she wanted: 'if not a female Richard, then a genderless one'. When looking at gender and performance together one must take what gender issues arise from a particular performance and investigate them separate to a fixed idea of gender. Gender is too sparse to have a rigid impression or constant opinion, as Colin Counsell and Laurie Wolff (2001) write 'Owing to the obvious consonance between gender and sexual identity, which negotiate some of the same political structures, feminist theory and queer theory or theories of sexual dissidence have been placed together in this one, large section.' These are just but a few sub-sections of the more modern word 'gender'. Where as traditionally this word is held a scientific title of what sex an animal is (male or female), it ...

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