So last weekend, I was fascinated to see what would happen with Pina Bausch's Kontakthof, performed by a senior cast (men and women aged over 65), and then, on the following night, by a junior cast (aged under 19).
He was born in New York to parents he describes as "not artsy people" and had a precocious start to his career when he was cast, aged 12, in a Broadway production of Inherit The Wind.
Bradley, now 63, softly spoken and sensitive, has been inextricably linked to Hines and Kes since he was cast, aged 14, in Ken Loach's 1969 adaptation of Hines's novel A Kestrel for a Knave.
But more exacting demands for how stars look have left some opera houses reluctant to cast ageing opera stars in youthful roles.This poses a problem not just for the singers but also for the art form, as overexertion prunes the ranks of available stars.
While we have received gestures of solidarity, there has also been a backlash – a nagging sense that many people thought that radicalisation wasn't a safe subject to explore with our young cast, aged 15 to 23, and that there must have been something, however small, in the text (or the show's makers) to cause such a reaction.
Previous studies on cast aging have also reported rapid exhaustion of most of the ammonium present in the castings [8, 55, 56].
The decision to cast age-similar actors was purposeful to contrast the series from other shows of the same period such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dawson's Creek, which had cast actors in their twenties as teenagers.
Because the stardom has actually diminished as the cast ages.
This was done to avoid moving the show to a primarily college setting, as the first generation cast aged or "graduated" out of Degrassi Community School into college.
Set largely in a dim, crumbling Los Angeles mansion, Baby Jane cast aging 1930s icons and rumored enemies Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as a pair of formerly famous sisters who are now consigned to obscurity.
They enhance decomposition rates through the joint action of direct effects (i.e. effects due to direct earthworm activity such as digestion, burrowing, etc) and indirect effects (i.e. effects derived from earthworm activities such as cast ageing).
