[arista]

[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'
Two evenings will be left open to an
'all-Black identifying audience']


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...hite-gaze.html

[Cherie]

wtf...I mean okay but this is not diversity and inclusion but if that is the hill they want to die on...

[arista]

Originally Posted by Cherie

wtf...I mean okay but this is not diversity and inclusion but if that is the hill they want to die on...

They do not want You
staring at them

[Crimson Dynamo]

how black does one have to be to qualify?

Is there a doorman there with a colour scale?

[rusticgal]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

how black does one have to be to qualify?

Is there a doorman there with a colour scale?

[arista]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

how black does one have to be to qualify?

Is there a doorman there with a colour scale?

Yes you are White
bugger off LT

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by arista

Yes you are White
bugger off LT

I take a good tan in the summer

[thesheriff443]

Will dark brown do?

[Oliver_W]

Bit condescending: "you poor black folx, you don't have to watch our play while whites are here!!".

Why don't they go the whole hog and offer lower prices?

[Beso]

Just identify as black on the night.

[DemRed]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Just identify as black on the night.

I literally spit my drink at this ^

[bots]

it's racial discrimination

[rusticgal]

Can you imagine if the tables were turned....

I think its totally wrong.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by rusticgal

Can you imagine if the tables were turned....

I think its totally wrong.

It’s so-totally not wrong.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Redway

It’s so-totally not wrong.

why is it not wrong, would you accept white only nights at the theatre, its going backwards

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Cherie

why is it not wrong, would you accept white only nights at the theatre, its going backwards

Are you a historically oppressed minority in this part of the world who needs a certain degree of racial protection and spaces where one common cultural marker for group solidarity can exist in a fully safe space? Why are you bothered about that as a white person?

[rusticgal]

Originally Posted by Redway

It’s so-totally not wrong.

We are supposed to be moving forward….if the situation was reversed no doubt you would be on here saying just how wrong it is.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by rusticgal

We are supposed to be moving forward….if the situation was reversed no doubt you would be on here saying just how wrong it is.

Read my above post. If you still want to argue, let’s talk it out.

[Livia]

This already happened at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. Last year they put on performances for black only audiences. This is all so they can enjoy the show without being under "white gaze".

Of course it's illegal to refuse any group of people admission.

[Oliver_W]

Tbh it's the best marketing they could hope for, no-one would care about or have heard of their little play without this.

Originally Posted by Redway

It’s so-totally not wrong.

How so?

Originally Posted by Livia

This already happened at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. Last year they put on performances for black only audiences. This is all so they can enjoy the show without being under "white gaze".

Of course it's illegal to refuse any group of people admission.

It's probably advisory and requested rather than enforced. So of course, groups of whites should book up the tickets for those performances

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Tbh it's the best marketing they could hope for, no-one would care about or have heard of their little play without this.


How so?


It's probably advisory and requested rather than enforced. So of course, groups of whites should book up the tickets for those performances

Certain black experiences (and don’t tell me you’ve experienced exactly that same level or type of racism) are unique to black people and black people alone and they should have the right to feel protected in certain spaces and able to have a sounding board for things that pertain mostly to black people. You can flip the tables for reverse-neutrality’s sake but the bottom and top line is white people don’t need it. Understand it, don’t understand it. It doesn’t change anything.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Redway

Certain black experiences (and don’t tell me you’ve experienced exactly that same level or type of racism) are unique to black people and black people alone and they should have the right to feel protected in certain spaces and able to have a sounding board for things that pertain mostly to black people. You can flip the tables for reverse-neutrality’s sake but the bottom and top line is white people don’t need it. Understand it, don’t understand it. It doesn’t change anything.

What about Asian people? Or Hispanics? This Theatre is saying it only wants black audiences.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

What about Asian people? Or Hispanics? This Theatre is saying it only wants black audiences.

For one night, Mock. They’re welcome to do an Asian or Hispanic night some other time but that’s just not what this is about.

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Livia

This already happened at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. Last year they put on performances for black only audiences. This is all so they can enjoy the show without being under "white gaze".

Of course it's illegal to refuse any group of people admission.

Stratford east...white folk staring at black folk.. in Stratford???

Surely its the other way round there

[Crimson Dynamo]

Anyone wishing to avoid The White gaze" should just watch TV adverts every night

:/