Hi all, my DD who is in Year 11 came home very upset today. She rehearses for the annual school production on Tuesday nights after school, and the production this year is Les Miserables.
DD auditioned for a role and was given a role in the senior chorus, with the main roles going to the sixth form. The senior chorus play the factory workers/revolutionaries/prostitutes etc.
Tonight at rehearsal the senior cast students were rehearsing the scene with the prostitutes, when my DD was taken aside by a member of staff and asked her age and school year. She told them she was 15 and in Year 11, and she then told me that she went back to the group to continue rehearsing. About twenty minutes later the teachers came back and took DD out again, and told her that she looked too young and small for it to be 'appropriate' for her to play a prostitute, and so would she mind being in the Year 7-10 cast for the numbers at this point in the production instead.
DD was upset as she wants to keep the part she rightfully was given, and all the other Year 11s are in the senior cast. I've told her she needs to speak to the teachers and tell them, but she says they won't let her be in the number and were quite adamant that she would be moved down. She is 5'2 and quite young looking and slim, but I'm sure other Year 11s are too! AIBU to think this isn't fair?