As an actor of color, I found the casting to be questionable. That said, I would have been okay with a female lead of color. And why I wanted to weigh in on this is because being "color blind" is a privilege only to those that are not of color. So, while you may hate racism in any form David B, you likely benefit from not having experienced the oppression of the North American social system as I have, because likely you are not a person of color.

Secondly, jono54, while I appreciate experimental and provocative theatre, the social context that theatre provides does speak very much to our social sensibilities. So, if yet another role of color is co-opted by a person not of color, it keeps that status quo in place.

Lastly, both of you are railing about this issue as though there are an equal number of lead roles of color as there are of caucasian lead roles, and I can tell you in all honesty the number of caucasian lead roles outnumbers lead roles for us colored folk 100 to 1.