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Casting a play proves harder than the author expected

Original: OF course, before the actual rehearsals begin there is the business of casting the play. The author now makes the valuab

A widely shared passage on theatre describes the familiar difficulty of casting before rehearsals begin. The author of a play with three female and five male roles discovers that filling eight parts with suitable performers is anything but easy, a predicament that has struck a chord with readers involved in amateur and professional theatre alike.

Why now: The passage resonates with people involved in theatre who recognise the perennial struggle of casting.

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• OF course, before the actual rehearsals begin there is the business of casting the play. The author now makes the valuable discovery that this is anything but easy. There are in the play, let us say, three ladies and five gentlemen. For the eight rôles, therefore, the author… · palimpsestebot · 1

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