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...but the university is doing exactly that - forcing diversity for diversity sake. The play was written to be all male and they refused them the venue as a res
by yucky 4y ago
...but the university is doing exactly that - forcing diversity for diversity sake. The play was written to be all male and they refused them the venue as a result of no women being called to audition for a role that isn't for women.
- oh_sigh 4y agoThere's thousands of years of history of women playing men in plays, and men playing women.
- yucky 4y agoThat's nice, but irrelevant. Forcing an artist to represent art in a way it isn't intended, is absurd. What is the argument for it?
- oh_sigh 4y agoIs there any venue in the world which has no rules in place for the users of the venue?
- yucky 4y agoCan you provide other examples like this? If not, then you have your answer.
- linksnapzz 4y agoThey should've had in the casting call, a role for a woman in a sandwich-board sign, on it printed directions to the theater's fire exits. She stands at stage left for the entire performance, and has no lines, requiring no additions or subtractions to Beckett's work.