London Play to Feature ‘All-Black-Identifying Audience’ to Be ‘Free From the White Gaze’

In this day and age when many in the media and 🎬Entertainment industry are quick to call out any alleged incidents of ✊Racism by white people, they seem to be more than willing to turn a blind eye to reverse discrimination.

Even worse, they like to encourage it.

The Daily Mail reported the Noël Coward theatre in London’s West End host two nights of the play “Slave Play” exclusively for an all-Black audience.

Playwright Jeremy O Harris told the BBC he was “so excited” for the two nights, July 17 and September 17.

“One of the things we have to remember is that people have to be radically invited into a space to know that they belong there and in most places in the west, poor people and black people have been told that they do not belong inside the theatre,” he said.

O Harris added, “For me, as someone who wants and yearns for black and brown people to be in the theatre, who comes from a working class environment, who wants people who do not make six figures to feel like theatre is a place for them, it is a necessity to radically invite them in with initiatives that say ‘you’re invited’. Specifically you.’

Asked about the idea it was telling white people they were not invited, he countered, “There are a litany of places in our country that are generally only inhabited by white people, and nobody is questioning that, and nobody is saying that by inviting black audiences here you are uninvited.”