Flying aircraft, skydiving, race car driving, mountain climbing and scuba diving are all considered "hazardous activities" that are typically excluded from cast insurance policies.
Recent casting policy at the Metropolitan Opera falls somewhere between the Three Tenors and three-card monte.
Citing the "chronic under-representation of women on the British stage", she considers Propeller's casting policy to be unjustifiable, an argument that carries a lot of clout.
It's a scattershot approach, and this also extends to the film's casting policy, which seems to involve filling the thing with enough cameos to paper over the gaps in the script.
Most UK theatres now operate a "colour-blind casting" policy so that, for example, in the National's current Frankenstein, a white son has a non-white father, with no narrative point (such as adoption) being made.
Never mind all the incoming petrolhead knockoffs (a sequel to 2014's Need for Speed has apparently now been greenlighted) – how about, post-F&F, a greater acceptance of the serious financial benefits of a diverse casting policy?
But given that Noah rode out many squalls about its unorthodox spin on the Bible to an eventual $362.6m worldwide, whereas the only flak Exodus has received has been about its racial casting policy, perhaps Scott should have been more adventurous story-wise.
"There is nothing worse than a five-minute-wonder reality star or a faded US celebrity just there for the payday," says Thomas, in what is almost certainly a dig at the casting policy of ATG, whose roster of stars this year includes the untried Presley and, as Captain Hook in Manchester, the returning David Hasselhoff.
Manchester has a diverse casting policy, so I read the play again and asked if Danforth [who oversees the witch trials], could be a woman?" Refusal was unequivocal: Herold argues that "changing gender seemed to alter something fundamental in the world of the play".
