While the arts has acknowledged its problem with diversity and talks about making things better, there remains a lack of action, according to the writer of the new musical about Tina Turner.
Katori Hall, the American writer who won an Olivier for her debut play The Mountaintop, is back in the UK preparing for the world premiere in the West End of London of Tina Turner the Musical.
Diversity and inclusion is one of the the most urgent debates in theatre and the arts more widely, but Hall fears it may not get beyond talking.
“That requires a lot of giving up,” she said. “Giving up your seat to let people sit at the table who haven’t always been allowed to sit ... that’s often not on the stage, but where the decisions are made. That’s on the board. How many black artistic directors does the UK theatre scene have? I’m always asking, are we performing inclusion, are we performing diversity? Or are we actually doing it. Let’s see if the acknowledgment phase shifts through into the action phase.”
Source : theguardian
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