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Slave Play, written by American playwright Jeremy O Harris, starts its run at the Noël Coward Theatre this summer

Two performances for a black-identifying audience will take place - so that ticket holders are free from the white gaze.

Slave Play will hold two ‘Black Out nights’ in move that critics call ‘simplistic and racist’

Jeremy O Harris is bringing his Slave Play production to London's West End with a Black Out night that is causing controversy.

A London play is inviting an "all-Black identifying audience" to two nights of an upcoming run

"No whites allowed at this theatre on certain days to protect black people from the "white gaze." How is this legal?" wrote one commenter on TikTok.

Slave Play addresses topics such as race and sexuality and - in writer Jeremy O. Harriss own words - looks at how far we havent come since slavery, abolished in America in 1865.

Is there anything more insulting to black people than the suggestion we cannot enjoy a play alongside our white peers? You might have thought we’d left this problem behind in the 1960s, when civil rights laws on both sides of the Atlantic discouraged segregation. But it seems the producers of Slave Play have not.

A taxpayer-funded theatre has hosted a play for an all-black audience, the Telegraph can disclose, as Downing Street said arts funded by the public should be open to all.

Rishi Sunak’s spokesperson says it would be ‘concerning and divisive’ to restrict audiences based on race at Noël Coward