When Bassano says 'I want to get so good, they can't say no,' it's a rallying cry for all creatives working from the margins. yxe
Hill’s Bassano and Blais’s Shakespeare own the stage. The snappy banter between them is funny, confident and perfectly matched — but it’s not just idle flirtation. Within the space of their first conversation, when they’re both talented young writers at the start of their careers, Bassano is challenging Shakespeare about how he writes women.
Shakespeare and his colleagues are targeted when they write inflammatory work, so he sometimes tones it down. Bassano’s family is targeted no matter what they do. Shakespeare can plan to have a career for the rest of his life. Bassano can only live as she chooses for as long as she can avoid getting married.
So when Bassano says, “I want to get so good, they can’t say no,” it’s a rallying cry for all creatives working from the margins, echoing from Elizabethan times to today. And later, when Shakespeare asks her why she keeps throwing herself against the wall — as his career flourishes and hers stalls — Bassano’s shouted answer is as honest as it is devastating: “To make a mark.”Article content
In historical hindsight, there is no doubt she did. And with this world-premiere production of The Dark Lady, co-produced with Shakespeare in the Ruins, Hill is making her own indelible mark on the Canadian theatre scene.
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