"When rehearsals for King Lear started," friend, actor and playwright Ellen McLaughlin told us our first night on the river what her director had told her: "Just ride the tiger." Ellen had been starring in King Lear as King Lear, a female actor portraying one of Shakespeare's most demanding and tragic male characters. The director didn't tell Ellen to hire a voice coach and learn to speak like a man, or to dress like a man (which Ellen wouldn't have done anyway). She told Ellen to ride the tiger...