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> “If it concerned a play with five white guys that they’d held open auditions for, everything would have been fine. But you can’t ban people right from the sta

• BizarroLand 4y ago
  They're punishing people today for the actions of someone who died in 1989. Sam Beckett wrote the play to be only men. That was his vision for the story he wrote, and he was completely unwilling to compromise on it. Even though other people want to change it, they will have to wait until either the people who enforce the copyright stop enforcing it or until it goes public domain. Even though the view is outdated, I can't blame the author for wanting his story told his way, even if other people could tell it better with a few changes. The only people that have done wrong here are the administrators who cancelled the play over their misinterpretation of a policy, following the letter of the law instead of the spirit. After all, per the article, in their pursuit of equality and inclusivity, they have wasted the time and talents of many women, trans people, and people of color all because some dead person used the power of the law to prevent the possibility of women being cast into a role he wrote for men.