‘My Life As A Man’ – What One Mezzo Has Learned About Gender From A Career’s Worth Of Pants Roles

Alice Coote: “Having been stepping into male eyes for two decades now for around 70% of my working life I, by necessity, have had to dwell in a place where my mind feels increasingly separate from my sexual body. It has made it complex for me to return to daily life as a woman: I feel in sharp relief the way a … woman’s personal and public relationship power is utterly unlike that of a … male’s expectations and power relationship to the world. Cross-dressing on the stage reveals less to me about gender than it does power.”