Critic and scholar Hailey Bachrach on having, for instance, Don John in Much Ado About Nothing played by a woman: "We must think about these things beyond just the blanket assumption that any opportunity for women is narratively good " especially in a play whose embedded gender politics make 'gender blindness' more or less impossible."
SOURCE: haileybachrach.com at 07:15AM on February 26, 2018