Max Hightower, 17, had won the coveted role of Curly, but his school enacted a new anti-trans policy for this play
  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
    35·
    1 year ago

    What the fuck?

    “Actors and actresses could only play a role that was the same gender they were assigned at birth,” Hightower recounted the conversation.

    When I was in school, they literally didn’t have enough students who were good enough to act, so there was so much gender bending. What garbage

    • Enkrod@feddit.de
      21·
      1 year ago

      During shakespeares time, they did not allow female actors, so all women on stage were played by men.

      Shakespeare had men acting in skirts and dresses. Juliet of Romeo and Juliet, a 14 year old girl was played by a man. The kissing between the Capulet heiress and the Montague boy were two men smooching on stage.

      Repugnicans are a plague on both your houses (of Parliament)!