{"id":1460384,"date":"2024-03-02T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1460384"},"modified":"2024-03-02T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T18:10:00","slug":"london-theatre-bans-white-people-for-black-only-slave-play-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/london-theatre-bans-white-people-for-black-only-slave-play-nights\/1460384\/","title":{"rendered":"London Theatre Bans White People For ‘Black Only’ Slave-Play Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"

London Theatre Bans White People For ‘Black Only’ Slave-Play Nights<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

A theatre in the West End of London has received fierce criticism for planning to host two nights of a play where white people will not be welcome, in a so called \u201cBlack Out\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The production of\u00a0Slave Play<\/em>, which will star the Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington, will run at the No\u00ebl Coward theatre, with dates on 17 July and 17 September,\u00a0only being open to an \u2018all-Black identifying audience\u2019.<\/a><\/p>\n

The theatre describes the events, claiming \u201cBlack Out nights are the purposeful creation of an environment in which all-Black identifying audience can experience and discuss an event in the performing arts, film, athletic and cultural spaces \u2013 free from the white gaze.\u201d<\/p>\n

White theatre goers BANNED from attending \u2018Black-Only\u2019 theatre night in London.<\/p>\n

Upcoming West End theatre show for \u2018Slave Play\u2019 will have \u201cblack out nights\u201d for \u201cblack identifying audience\u2019 and will ban any white people from attending two special performances so that theatre\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/XvBy9rBS6L<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Oli London (@OliLondonTV) February 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Jeremy O Harris, the playwright of\u00a0Slave Play<\/em>, which tells the story of three interracial couples role-playing while on a plantation, told the BBC \u201cI think that one of the things we have to remember is that people have to be radically invited to a space to know that they belong there. In most places in the West, poor people and black people have been told they do not belong inside in a theatre.\u201d<\/p>\n

“People have to be radically invited into a space to know that they belong there.”<\/p>\n

Playwright @JeremyOHarris<\/a> explains ‘Black Out’ nights of the West End run of ‘Slave Play’ – inviting only people who identify as Black or Brown to buy tickets for select performances.#BBCWato<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/dDainPWDwj<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The World at One (@BBCWorldatOne) February 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Exactly who is telling black people that now in 2024 in London isn\u2019t explained.<\/p>\n

He continues, \u201cThere are a litany of places in all of our countries that are generally inhabited by only white people. No one is saying by inviting black audiences here you are uninvited. The idea of a Black Out night is to say this is a night where we are specifically inviting black people to fill up this space and feel safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

It really does sound a lot like the production has decided to make a point of \u2018uninviting\u2019 white people from attending the two shows, or banning them more accurately.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the move, co-founder of the\u00a0Conservatives Against Racism for Equality Albie Amankona urged \u201cDisgraceful, a British theatre banning native Brits. We should not import American style race relations to the UK. \u2018Black people & poor people\u2019 have never been told \u2018you do not belong in Theatres\u2019 Americans should keep their reverse Jim Crow crap to themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

People in Britain uncomfortable with the \u201cwhite gaze\u201d should emigrate.<\/p>\n

What is keeping you here? I am tired of this sh*t.<\/p>\n

You think an African or Caribbean country would do something so self-hating as to ban the native population from a play?<\/p>\n

\ud83e\udd21 posing as anti-racists. pic.twitter.com\/fFyGhsHh2w<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Albie (@albieamankona) February 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Amy Gallagher, the Mayoral candidate for London\u2019s Social Democratic Party,\u00a0told The Telegraph\u00a0<\/a>that the move is \u201cdefinitely racist,\u201d adding \u201cexcluding anyone on the basis of skin colour in this way is racist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey seem to be reverting to a critical race theory definition of racism whereby, according to Ibram X. Kendi, we need present discrimination, against white people, to make up for past discrimination,\u201d Gallagher further noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey say they want to be free from the \u201cwhite gaze\u201d which, of course, means white people, but they will not go as far to say white people as it would be illegal,\u201d Gallagher urged.<\/p>\n

Nickie Aiken, Conservative MP for the Cities of\u00a0London\u00a0and Westminster, has written to Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer about the theatre performances, noting \u201cAt a time when we see domestic racial tensions running high, why a west end theatre thinks it is acceptable to encourage racial segregation is beyond me.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the British Prime Minister\u00a0told The London Evening Standard<\/a>\u00a0that the actions of the production are \u201cconcerning,\u201d adding \u201cclearly restricting audiences on the basis of race would be wrong and divisive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harris issued a bizarre response stating \u201cHey 10 Downing Street and Rishi Sunak\u2026\u00a0there\u2019s literally a war going on\u2026maybe the death of thousands of Palestinian children should be more \u201cconcerning\u201d than a playwright attempting to make the West End more inclusive to those who aren\u2019t historically invited there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Empire Street, the production company behind the London stretch of the play, also issued a statement, refuting the suggestion that white people will be banned, stating \u201cAs the producers of\u00a0Slave Play<\/em>\u00a0in the West End, our intent is to celebrate the play with the widest possible audience. We want to increase accessibility to theatre for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Broadway production conceived of black out nights and we are carefully considering how to incorporate this endeavour as part of two performances in our 13-week run. We will release further details soon. To be absolutely clear, no-one will be prevented or precluded from attending any performance of\u00a0Slave Play,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0the statement also claimed.<\/p>\n

It is illegal in the UK to turn anyone away from an event such as a play in a theatre based on the colour of their skin.<\/p>\n

Hence that statement, but everyone knows what the real intention behind such \u2018black out\u2019 nights, which have previously been implemented before in\u00a0London<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0New York<\/a>, and have even spread to places like Canada.<\/p>\n

My wife is brown, I am white, and all of our kids are mixed. My family and I will enter any theatre we wish to. You will not be able to stop us. Any attempt to do so, on the basis of race, is illegal. pic.twitter.com\/w8z907J1Bx<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mike Fairclough (@1MikeFairclough) February 29, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n

Why are the BBC supporting a racist and his desire for racial segregation?<\/p>\n

\u2014 soulstorm_design (David Whyte) (@slstrm_dsgn) February 29, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n

Anyone else up for buying tickets and turning up at the \u201cblack out nights\u201d for the \u2018Slave Play\u2019, and then suing the theatre for racial discrimination when denied entry?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Turning Point UK \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 (@TPointUK) February 29, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n

This guy is absolutely giddy about being an out and proud racist. He can’t believe his luck that he’s allowed to say this stuff.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Alexandra Marshall (@ellymelly) February 29, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cThey weren\u2019t allowed to sit in the theatre with white people\u201d. So he now wants black\/ brown people to turn up and not sit with white people \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02
So if you are a mixed race couple. Make sure to go different days OK<\/p>\n

\u2014 leilani dowding \ud83c\udf38\ud83d\ude9c \u262e\ufe0f (@LeilaniDowding) February 29, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n

The man is a racist and wishes to reintroduce segregation and apartheid into the UK in 2024 \ud83d\ude44\ud83e\udd21\ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffc\u200d\u2642\ufe0f<\/p>\n

\u2014 NeilTerry2004 (@NeilTerry2004) February 29, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n

Some racism is OK, evidently.<\/p>\n

\u2014 NoCsiouS (Ho\/Hum) (@nebilcs) February 29, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n

A number of of states in America enforced Jim Crow laws in the early to mid 19th century. Therefore, white people shouldn’t be allowed to visit the theatre. Makes perfect sense, no?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jake Welch (@JakeKieranWelch) February 29, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n

This is shameful incitement to racial resentment and racial gaslighting. The extent of perverse justification for this boggles the mind. And shame on the feeble @kitharingtoncom<\/a> for having no spine.<\/p>\n

\u2014 JacovZ (@Jaco_v_Z) February 29, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n

Get rid of the Equality Act if it only works in one direction<\/p>\n

\u2014 Craig Travis (@CraigTravissimo) February 29, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n

This is racism.<\/p>\n

\u2014 steve kippax (@stevekippax) February 29, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n

Can we have a white-only” night so white people can feel safe with our own kind…?<\/p>\n

Surely this Jeremy racist wont have a problem with it…<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jam3sMiddl3ton \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 (@Jam3sMidd1eton) February 29, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n

Pure racial discrimination. Segregation should have no place in our society. This is apartheid.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Craig Bayliss (@CustardCream007) February 28, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n

We know who the real bigots are \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jack Fielding (@JackFielding22) February 28, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n

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