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Theatr Clwyd: Cast announced for world première of Celebrated Virgins: A story of the ladies of Llangollen

Theatr Clwyd today announces the cast for their new production of Celebrated Virgins: A Story of the Ladies of Llangollen, created by Katie Elin-Salt and Eleri B. Jones. Celebrated Virgins follows the story of Miss Sarah Ponsonby and Lady Eleanor Butler, two women raised in the upper echelons of 18th century Irish society who met when […]

Writers should be free to express their opinions – not strangled by Stasi-like 'diversity' rules

Writers should be free to express their opinions – not strangled by Stasi-like ‘diversity’ rules Arts critics are being warned by the union Equity to watch what they say. Whatever the intentions, it’s a sinister, anti-free speech move 29 April 2021 • 5:00am Critically isolated: writers and journalists, says Ben Lawrence, shouldn t be ordered to conform to industry pressure  Credit: Getty Last week, the acting union Equity delivered a new set of guidelines for theatre critics. Among its recommendations was that critics should consider their ethnicity and relative privilege when writing their reviews. The union urged that they “avoid referring to immutable characteristics such as age, race, gender and appearance, unless such characteristics directly affect the production’s meaning”. For a decade, I have been a critic across several art forms, including theatre, and while I hope that, out of fairness, I have always adhered to the above, I am appalled that Equity ar