• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Shortly after Hightower’s casting, however, the student was replaced when the school’s principal, Scott Johnston, called Hightower’s father about a new gender policy for student performers.

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

    This sounds like the kind of thing a school would do under the Nazis. I wonder why that is.

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      8 months ago

      These people would loose their mind if they ever saw a traditional British Christmas Pantomime

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      8 months ago

      Also how that spits in the face of theatrical performances dating at least back to Shakespeare’s time, if not further.

      I never studied that stuff, but I did date a drama major back in the day.

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      8 months ago

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

      These people are so fucking clueless. Men playing women in theatre is literally as old as theatre because women literally weren’t allowed to.