On July 25 I sent this message to the Royal Shakespeare Company in
Stratford on Avon and, despite a pledge on their website to respond within
three weeks, they have so far failed to reply:
As a regular visitor to your highly-subsidised playhouse, I am utterly
sick of the way you abdicate responsibility for putting on vaguely reasonable
productions (eg Coriolanus, King of Britain, being a woman; The Shrew being a
man etc) but assumed King John would be a man. I bought tickets on that basis
but discover you have cast a woman in the role and I have no wish to see this
politically-correct nonsense. Please refund my money and explain the thinking
behind these unreasonable distortions; whether you think you have any
responsibility towards theatregoers to present anything remotely resembling an
authentic account of Shakespeare's original intentions; how many more of these
travesties you propose to stage; and how you justify the massive taxpayer
subsidies which allow you to subject your audience to these pathetic whims.
I emailed you
several weeks ago asking for my money back, having bought tickets for King John
in the naïve belief that the title role would be played by a man. So far you
have not responded at all. Your website promises replies. When can I expect
one?
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