On either side of the Atlantic, from Keanu Reeves and George Clooney to Bryan Cranston and Nicole Scherzinger, the theatre industry has been no stranger to celebrity casting.
It perhaps isn't a surprise, then, that The Stage newspaper ran two opposing opinion pieces about whether or not this type of stunt casting was in fact damaging the industry on a fundamental level.
Through these differing perspectives, Mickey-Jo is at long last unpacking the conversation around celebrities on stage and discussing the positive and negative implications of their casting...
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00:00 | introduction
02:51 | the problem
12:29 | industry challenges
20:49 | the rebuttal
29:51 | the conclusion
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