Youth should not be valued over experience in theatre

guardian.co.uk: "The flurry of interest surrounding the news that 17-year-old Anya Reiss is to have a play staged at the Royal Court next year, is a reminder of how much the young are valued in theatre – and the media – over the older and more experienced. The Young Vic and the Barbican even ran a season a few years back celebrating Young Genius and Keats's suggestion that: 'if it does not come as naturally as the leaves to a tree/ It had better not come at all'."