‘Just let us audition’: UK transgender actors appeal to be cast in non-trans roles
Kim Tatum, Mariah Louca and Reece Lyons combine to call for trans women to be put on an equal footing for cis rolesKim Tatum dreams of playing Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard’s exquisite former star of silent films. Mariah Louca longs to perform as Dangerous Liaisons’ evil schemer Marquise de Merteuil. And for Reece Lyons, it’s the monstrous ambition of Lady Macbeth that makes her the ideal role. But, until attitudes within British theatre shift, it’s unlikely these talen