Interesting Day at the Old Surratt Hacienda

[Eva Elisabeth]

I think Betty herself should and would portray him the best. And she'd be well in line with great 19th century actresses like Sarah Bernhardt portraying male leads:
http://theconversation.com/tackling-gend...lets-31268

(In Shakespeare's days it went v.v., all females - and females who, in the course of the play, played men for camouflage - were portrayed by "boy players" who often were adults:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_player )