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Post by bordeaux on Dec 16, 2021 17:25:15 GMT
Closing early due to positive tests. Last performance today Oh no! Everything is going to close, isn't it? I'll be amazed if I get to see Cabaret in February!
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Post by n1david on Mar 1, 2022 16:50:49 GMT
The Royal Court's report into Rare Earth Mettle has now been published: drive.google.com/file/d/17i-bOR3TNiouQ8v2W4YYGp1hqx_r7paO/viewEssentially, they accept that they messed up, context about the character was removed during drafting at which point the name no longer had relevance; and not enough people were involved in the development process who could have stepped in, and the concerns of those who did were ignored.
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Post by Dave B on Mar 1, 2022 20:09:38 GMT
Without feeling qualified to comment on anything else in the report (I am a paid up member/friend of RC) ... this seems a stretch. There has been a lot of papering (upstairs and downstairs) for the Royal Court since re-opening post Covid. The only two shows that I am certain sold out (or even really well) were Maryland and Purple Snowflakes....
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 1, 2022 23:03:33 GMT
I follow a number of other Jewish artists on social media and there’s some anger over the report. From reading the report it appears the main point of contact between the Court and “Jewish artists” was one Jewish writer who was already under commission from the Court who first tipped off the Court about private conversations going on in a whatsapp group and volunteered to act as an intermediary, despite having a clear conflict of interest. I have read elsewhere that the writer in question also lives with REM’s director (accused of mishandling or ignoring complaints from Jewish workshop participants), which raises more questions about conflict of interest and ethics.
No one has come out of this looking great.
The Court need to talk to Jewish artists they don’t have pre-existing relationships with, or even to Jewish people who don’t work in new writing theatre and don’t have to worry about keeping in the Court’s good books.
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Post by fossil on Mar 2, 2022 14:27:38 GMT
What I find particularly depressing on reading the report, is the way that during the development process the RC was sensitive to the way the Bolivian character was presented. Yet even though the implication of giving another character a Jewish name was flagged up, this was not acted upon.
Whether choosing to ignore this was a conscious or unconscious decision, it does seem to infer a "Jews don't count" mindset.
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