A version of this essay appeared as “Race Free, Gender Free, Body-Type Free, Age Free Casting” in TDR (1988) 33, 1: 4-12. Richard Schechner Abstract / Résumé The majority of roles in the Western classic and modern classic repertories are male
Don Rubin[1] Nearly five decades years ago, this year’s Thalia Prize laureate, Richard Schechner, wrote in his first important book, Public Domain, that [T]he function and the vocabulary of criticism and theory are important, difficult problems. Important because theatre deserves