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    West End play ‘carefully considering’ black-only nights amid Number 10 criticism

    by Pa Reporters Feb 29, 2024 2 minutes
    Source: PA Archive

    Producers of a West End theatrical production are “carefully considering” holding evenings with black-only audiences amid criticism from Downing Street.

    Slave Play at the Noel Coward Theatre, which features Game Of Thrones star among the cast, was set to have two performances aimed at an “all-black-identifying audience” that is “free from the white gaze”.

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