How do you solve a problem like Maria?

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[...] Like a good writer, she says exactly what she wants to say and not a word more. Her limited stage time prevents her from overtly carrying out the “Sister Suffragette” act. It's the whole walls could talk” phenomenon - it amuses me to wonder what Maria would say given the chance. Would she further ridicule Sir Andrew? Gripe at Toby? Bemoan the fact that such a smart cookie as herself is unjustly bound by servile shackles? The Maria Monologues - coming to a theatre near you. [...]

[...] How do you solve a problem like Maria? greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.” -Verbal Kint, The Usual Suspects (1995) Set in the idyllic landscape of far-off Illyria, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night presents a tale of mischief and merriment, marriage and masquerade. It's the stuff great plays are made of: someone dressing in drag, someone donning yellow stockings, blatant homoerotic tendencies flying every which way. But beneath the cross-gartered surface lies a seedy underbelly teeming with premonitory feminist subtext that, while refraining from being overt in its guise of transvestism, nevertheless paints a very real portrait of the power of women in Twelfth Night. [...]

[...] Besides, he spends most of his time being drunk and stupid, so who do you think will wear the pants in that relationship? Maria: the male race: 0. As quickly as Maria came upon the scene, just as quickly did she depart. Her last line mightst have done this without thy beard and gown; he sees thee not.” - IV 67) echoes a sentiment that resonates applicably throughout the play. He sees thee not - the need for disguises, while helpful, is essentially useless because people will believe what they want to believe and no amount of yellow stockings will alter one's pre-conceived convictions. [...]