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
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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
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Nicola Coughlan Opens Up About Bridgerton s Big Reveal Chloe Foussianes © LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIX Actress Nicola Coughlan, beloved for her work on Derry Girls, takes on her next big role as Penelope Featherington in Netflix s period romp. She talks to T&C about being Lady Whistledown & more.
If you haven t finished season one of Bridgerton on Netflix, proceed with caution
spoilers ahead!
Not long before lockdown, Nicola Coughlan was filming
Bridgerton in Britain’s historic estates, swaddled in the garishly-hued Regency-era dresses forced upon her character, Penelope Featherington, and tiptoeing around the sets’ very real heirlooms. (“They do spend a lot of time when you re not filming being like, ‘Don t touch that painting. It s 800 years old.’”) Six-odd months later, as fans finally got their first glimpse of the show’s opulent world, Coughlan herself was in a more familiar one.
on Netflix, proceed with caution
Not long before lockdown, Nicola Coughlan was filming
Bridgerton in Britain’s historic estates, swaddled in the garishly-hued Regency-era dresses forced upon her character, Penelope Featherington, and tiptoeing around the sets’ very real heirlooms. (“They do spend a lot of time when you re not filming being like, ‘Don t touch that painting. It s 800 years old.’”) Six-odd months later, as fans finally got their first glimpse of the show’s opulent world, Coughlan herself was in a more familiar one.
“I ve been at home during lockdown with my mom in Ireland,” the actress tells me in late November. “So I still have to do all the grocery shopping. I had to paint her bedroom and do the hoovering.” (Hoovering, according to the internet, is British slang for vacuuming. Apparently the Irish use it too.) Her mother’s bedroom, Coughlan laughs, was transformed dramatically: from blue to a different shade of blue. “It took me like
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