West End play tells white theatregoers they aren't welcome as it hosts all-black audience nights at Kit Harington production to 'protect' ticketholders from 'the white gaze'

UK Daily Mail ^ | February 28 2024 | DANYA BAZARAA and TOM COTTERILL

[knighthawk]

A 'controversial' theatre production about race, identity and sexuality in twenty-first century America will put on two nights for black audiences to watch the play 'free from the white gaze'.

Slave Play, starring Kit Harington who is best known for his role as Jon Snow in the HBO series Game of Thrones, is coming to the Noël Coward theatre in London's West End from 29 June to 21 September.

But on the evenings of 17 July and 17 September, the theatre will be open to an 'all-Black identifying audience'.

[TomServo]

all-Black identifying audience

Should be interesting to see how many whites identify as black.

[dljordan]

They have gone insane.

[JayGalt]

My take would be to protect them from white gaze every single night. Go woke go broke.

[Carl Vehse]

When will the play be open to an all-White-identifying audience so that the white audience can watch the play ‘free from the black gaze’?

[Tell It Right]

Should be interesting to see how many whites identify as black.

Please excuse me for being ashy tonight.

[twister881]

Burn down the theater. It’s what Antifa-BLM would do.

[heartwood]

Let them have black only audiences, for the entire run.

[dfwgator]

Segregation Today
Segregation Tomorrow
Segregation Forever

[BenLurkin]

Cheap gimmick

[usurper]

They have gone insane.

I think its funny, the party of slavery has convinced the ethnic group they enslaved that segregation is now to their benefit. Its quite masterful manipulation if you ask me.

[Responsibility2nd]

Seems black people are taking this guy seriously.

 

[FlingWingFlyer]

Hell, the all black audiences are so confused they thought the Founding Fathers where black. I don’t think it makes any difference to them what color anybody is.

[dfwgator]

They probably think it's this George Wallace.

[1Old Pro]

My freshman year of college we had a campus dorm house for Blacks only. I thought that was strange. It was what Blacks wanted.

[Ken H]

Oh no! I was so looking forward to attending.

[Jim Noble]

I’m happy I don’t get to go. How about you?

[thegagline]

So whites are now banned from the Noël Coward theatre which is named after the white playwright, Nöel Coward

[tflabo]

I just bought some white miso paste vs. the red (darker variety).
In regards to this article can’t decide if I’m racist or just staying in my white privilege lane? Oh wait, Asian product-never mind.

[FlingWingFlyer]

But on the evenings of 17 July and 17 September, the theatre will be open to an 'all-Black identifying audience'.

So, if you "identify" as a descendant of an African slave, you'll be able to get in and receive an extra large reparations sized box of popcorn and Diet Coke?