Shrewd sex swap

SIR – I went to see the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of The Taming of the Shrew at our local cinema last week. All the male characters were played as women and the female characters as men.

I was dubious at first, but I was soon pleasantly surprised. It actually worked very well. As you would expect from the RSC, the acting was superb, it was very funny and beautifully costumed – a highly entertaining evening.

I felt that swapping the sex of the characters was a better way of dealing with the gender question than just casting an actor of the opposite sex in a role. Liz Softley

Didcot, Oxfordshire