Now then. West End play with Kit Harington to hold ‘black only’ performances:
Producers of Slave Play announce shows where white audiences will be effectively banned in an attempt to increase diversity.
Yep, that should do it.
Jeremy O Harris, the writer of Slave Play, said this week the production was “one of the rare plays by a black author that has made its way to the West End … I hope that with this production even more work by writers of colour will find support on our largest commercial stages”....
Slave Play, which received 12 Tony nominations in the United States, revolves around three interracial couples role-playing while on a plantation.
Harris told the BBC this week that he was “excited” to be introducing the concept of Black Out performances to the West End. “In most places in the West, poor people and black people have been told that they do not belong inside the theatre,” he said.
Have they? Have they really?
It reminds me of the recent fuss over the "racist" countryside. Blacks have apparently been told that they do not belong there either. No one's suggested that for a few days white people shouldn't be allowed out of the towns and cities, to allow black people to escape the disapproving white gaze as they hit those counntry walks and coastal paths. Give it time, though.
Race here, as has been noted often enough, is not the same as race in America - but we seem determined nevertheless to import all their worst ideas on the subject.
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