That always has been horribly unfair. But in classical theater there's always a dearth of female roles.

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of a forest. I, too, will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

How beautiful they are, / The lordly ones, / Who dwell in the hills, / In the hollow hills.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

The world's a theater, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill