Good afternoon folks, folks. Welcome to the podcast of the Load seaters for Tuesday the 5th of March

2024 I'm joined by Peter Whittle from the Culture Forum. Hi there call.

Hey thanks for coming in and today it's always always a pleasure today we're going to be discussing segregationist theatre in London, which is exactly what you'd expect,

from the party of diversity, which is of course the Conservative Party, then the the slow death of the

pro immigration argument just sort of collapsed under its own lies. So let's

begin. Yes.

Have you ever heard of something called Slave Play?

Yes, I have.

It's in fact the play, which is at the Noel Coward Theatre in London, which is the West End, right in the middle of the West Day.

It's like not some subsidised thing.

And they hit the headlines last week because they were going to have two performances

when they start in June, I think it is.

And these performances were going to be effectively black only.

So this would be via invitation, they've been very careful the way that they set this thing up because of

course they would fall foul of the law. So they're sort of actually going to what they call

black groups and activists or whatever inviting them and also the reasons

put forward for this is that they say that we need an audience to feel that they are not being looked at with what they call the white gaze.

That's G A ZE, right, not the other one. But basically it is essentially this kind of concept which is you've had in the arts for a long time there's something called the masculine gaze, you know, but, that's the way they've got rounded cards.

They couldn't say white people.

They said the white gaze.

And this is just extraordinary that they can even come up with this but at the same time not

extraordinary entirely predictable yeah so I thought I've never heard of this so I looked

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