It’s fitting that Carmel High School senior Lexi Palmer got the role of Sir Edward Clarke.
“When I was going into the audition season for the shows for the school, I actually wrote a whole essay in my audition form about why I thought it was relevant to the story and why it could be applicable to the story to gender bend the roles of the lawyers,” Palmer said.
Palmer plays Clarke, Wilde’s attorney in “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde” in the school’s production.The performances are at 7 p.m. Nov. 5-6 and 2 and 7 p.m. Nov. 7 in the Studio Theatre. After two hung juries, the British author was convicted of sodomy and gross indecency for being gay.
“I think something that’s really unique about this show is its ability to bring power to minorities or to underrepresented groups, whether that be through representation for homosexuals or for I mean even in the gender bending case like for women,” Palmer said “This show only had three female roles in the original cast and in the script, and so finding the role of Sir Edward was a very unique experience for me. When I was preparing for the auditions, I could find no recordings of it being played by a woman.”
Palmer said she ...