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Exit, Stage Left (If you're a white male writer): Inside the theatre summit where banning white men was seriously on the table


It was meant to be a gathering designed to bring together some of the leading voices in British theatre.

But at Soho Place in the West End on Wednesday, a proposal to ban staging plays by white male writers for a year nearly stole the show - and divided the room. The play, a cornerstone of English literature and widely taught in schools, ends with a fatal duel that sees most of the principal characters - including the prince himself - dead by the final curtain. The production, which opens in September as part of Indhu Rubasingham's inaugural season as artistic director, stars Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera as the Danish prince.

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