Just as the space of this production has been constructed as a democratic space, so too is the casting. Performers are not assigned nor may they prescribe gender, class, culture or age. The performers must remain completely neutral. As such, the arguments made by these characters as human beings and take on the form of broader philosophical arguments instead of merely political critiques. To technically accomplish this neutrality all performers would be dressed in hooded cloaks that concealed facial features. The cloaks would be bright nylon material so as to disable the audience from making any sense of the performers’ cloaks. These cloaks would conceal any visible indication of gender, class, or culture. Concealed beneath the cloaks would be shoes custom made for each performer to be of the same height of the tallest performer, further concealing the aforementioned as well as age. To complete each performer’s neutrality all speech would be filtered through an auto-tune device (that would also bleep out names and any indicators of relation such as “Auntie”) that would allow the performers to convey emotion still without compromising their neutrality.
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