Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Quentin Letts isn’t racist – our theatrical culture, which hands out jobs on the basis of racial profiling, is

Oh my goodness. Quentin Letts is ‘a racist’ apparently . It says so on Twitter. In his review of the RSC’s The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich he referred to the quality of Leo Wringer’s performance and asked, ‘Was Mr Wringer cast because he is black?’

The RSC’s top brass assembled in full muster and denounced Letts for his ‘blatantly racist attitude to a member of the cast.’

I haven’t seen the production, only the reaction to Letts’s reaction to the production, but that’s enough.

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