Whitey Ford
02-29-2024, 01:14 AM
WTF!
West End play tells white theatregoers they aren't welcome as it hosts all-black audience nights at Kit Harington production to 'protect' ticketholders from 'the white gaze'
https://i.imgur.com/dUO82C2.jpg
A 'controversial' theatre production about race, identity and sexuality in twenty-first century America will put on two nights for black audiences to watch the play 'free from the white gaze'.
Slave Play, starring Kit Harington who is best known for his role as Jon Snow in the HBO series Game of Thrones, is coming to the Noël Coward theatre in London's West End from 29 June to 21 September.
But on the evenings of 17 July and 17 September, the theatre will be open to an 'all-Black identifying audience'.
One senior Tory MP, who did not want to be named, raised questions over the decision to bar white people from the show, telling MailOnline: 'I understand the subject matter of the show may have particular resonance for some but would simply question the legality of this?
'In other circles it would be illegal and racial discrimination. I don't understand why this isn't.'
But playwright Jeremy O Harris told BBC Sounds he was 'so excited' to put on nights in the West End where tickets were only sold to people who identified as black. He said 'it is a necessity to radically invite them in with initiatives that say 'you're invited'. Specifically you.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13130911/West-End-tells-white-theatregoers-arent-welcome-hosts-black-audience-nights-Kit-Harrington-play-protect-ticketholders-white-gaze.html
West End play tells white theatregoers they aren't welcome as it hosts all-black audience nights at Kit Harington production to 'protect' ticketholders from 'the white gaze'
https://i.imgur.com/dUO82C2.jpg
A 'controversial' theatre production about race, identity and sexuality in twenty-first century America will put on two nights for black audiences to watch the play 'free from the white gaze'.
Slave Play, starring Kit Harington who is best known for his role as Jon Snow in the HBO series Game of Thrones, is coming to the Noël Coward theatre in London's West End from 29 June to 21 September.
But on the evenings of 17 July and 17 September, the theatre will be open to an 'all-Black identifying audience'.
One senior Tory MP, who did not want to be named, raised questions over the decision to bar white people from the show, telling MailOnline: 'I understand the subject matter of the show may have particular resonance for some but would simply question the legality of this?
'In other circles it would be illegal and racial discrimination. I don't understand why this isn't.'
But playwright Jeremy O Harris told BBC Sounds he was 'so excited' to put on nights in the West End where tickets were only sold to people who identified as black. He said 'it is a necessity to radically invite them in with initiatives that say 'you're invited'. Specifically you.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13130911/West-End-tells-white-theatregoers-arent-welcome-hosts-black-audience-nights-Kit-Harrington-play-protect-ticketholders-white-gaze.html