Casting – I wrote this play with some specific casting in mind. And that is: Do what you want. I’ve always been open to multi-cultural casting, but from the outset I decided it would be interesting to write a play where the gender of any character was also completely open to choice.

This, then, is what could be called the “traditional” version of the script. You can perform the play with Dylan as a male, Chris as female, and all the others as written, and that’s great. But I gave all the characters gender-neutral names, so if you want to cast Dylan as a woman and Chris as a man, that’s good too. If you want to cast Dylan and Chris both as women or both as men, go for it. This is true for all the characters. You can cast any of them any way you want. Just change the pronouns for Aunt Pat to Uncle Pat, and run with it. I want to see this done in a hundred variations.

There are a couple of exceptions. The Muse, Theadora is female. All the Muses were women. Having said that, if you want to cast Theadora with a guy in drag, that’s fine. There are also a couple of historical characters who should remain male, but you’re free to have a woman play the part in drag. And also if you want to keep Aunt Pat as Aunt Pat and cast a guy in drag, that’s all right too.