Theater's Black-Only Performances to Avoid 'White Gaze' Spark Fury
"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.
Source: newsweek.com
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I'm appalled that any playwright would contemplate segregating theatre audiences. Black people are perfectly comfortable going to the theatre - we don't need special treatment to enhance our enjoyment, writes INAYA FOLARIN IMAN
Slave Play addresses topics such as race and sexuality and - in writer Jeremy O. Harris's own words - looks at 'how far we haven't come' since slavery, abolished in America in 1865.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
The new woke segregation is an insult to white and black people
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.
Source: yahoo.com
Plays for all-black audiences 'have no place in modern Britain'
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.
Source: yahoo.com
No 10 condemns London theatre for hosting Black Out nights
Rishi Sunak’s spokesperson says it would be ‘concerning and divisive’ to restrict audiences based on race at Noël Coward
Source: theguardian.com