“Ay, there’s the rub:” Eddie Izzard plays with herself in “Hamlet”

“Ay, there’s the rub:” Eddie Izzard plays with herself in “Hamlet”

Eddie (now Suzy, she switches) Izzard’s 1999 comedy special “Dress to Kill” played from my friend Rowan’s parents’ television on DVD. I was 12 or 13, with a belly full of Twizzlers. Her parents smoked in their chairs and talked over Izzard’s effortlessly engaging monologue about both world wars. She wasn’t the first gender non-conforming person  I had come across (growing up on North Aurora Avenue, I saw the dolls working while I walked to schoo…