That is very good news. How wonderful she managed to get back enough confidence to start a new company.
Re:
Dancers had insisted that Orlando was a transgender character and should be performed by a transgender or bisexual performer. Kay had disagreed saying: “Woolf knows anyone can change sex in their imagination but you can’t change sex in your actual body.”
If it is taboo for a role to be performed by someone who does not, in real life, share the same characteristics designated by the role, why then is it considered acceptable, by the very people who hold these views, for a man to demand he is a woman when -by the definition of needing to be trans to do so - he does not share the same characteristics?
As a woman wrote the book, and used her mind as a woman to create Orlando, by what right or logic should her character be replaced by someone trans?
It is odd that these people are lagging so far behind the Bloomsbury group (100 years?) that they will never catch up with their acceptance all along of people as they were, without recourse to literalness and stereotyping.