A theatre announces that a classic male role will be played by a woman and gets a plethora of headlines as a result. While giving a woman a meaty, lead role is something to be applauded, it exposes the shortcomings in onstage equality in theatreland. Gender swapping characters isn't fresh, new and exciting, it's starting to feel overused, calculated and like lip-service.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM on January 2, 2019