[oh_sigh]

There's thousands of years of history of women playing men in plays, and men playing women.

[yucky]

That's nice, but irrelevant. Forcing an artist to represent art in a way it isn't intended, is absurd. What is the argument for it?

[linksnapzz]

They should've had in the casting call, a role for a woman in a sandwich-board sign, on it printed directions to the theater's fire exits. She stands at stage left for the entire performance, and has no lines, requiring no additions or subtractions to Beckett's work.

[oh_sigh]

Is there any venue in the world which has no rules in place for the users of the venue?

[yucky]

Can you provide other examples like this? If not, then you have your answer.