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Kit Harington says criticism of black-only play nights are 'vaguely ridiculous'

https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/kit-harington-noel-coward-theatre-rishi-sunak-stephen-fry-denzel-washington-b1173297.html

The 37-year-old Game Of Thrones actor is in the cast of Slave Play at the Noel Coward Theatre, which has set aside two performances aimed at an “all-black-identifying audience” which is “free from the white gaze”.

He said: “Number one – if you are white, no-one’s stopping you buying a ticket, it’s not illegal to buy a ticket for that show, if you want to come. It’s saying ‘We would prefer the audience to be this’.

What a mealy-mouthed response. "You can come but you won't be welcomed."

Previously staged on Broadway, the play was nominated for 12 Tony Awards and tells a story of “race, identity and sexuality” at the MacGregor Plantation in the southern US during the early 21st century.

The wiki says....
Slave Play is a three-act play by Jeremy O. Harris about race, sex, power relations, trauma, and interracial relationships. It follows three interracial couples undergoing "Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy" because the black partners no longer feel sexual attraction to their white partners.

The writer Jeremy O Harris...

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I'm not sure what the point of this is when they still got white actors on the stage and the whole thing is apparently about interracial relationships anyway, so you'd think it'd be about encouraging exchange. Overall this kind of stuff keeps happening again and again and I think at some point it's mostly performative to just get some extra headlines

Well, I guess they left out the part where they promote the "whites only" performances...