‘Stop shoving it down our throats, LGBT artists. Just be fabulous’
Playwright Mark Ravenhill says the main aim should be to entertain, not push a political agenda on to audiences
05 May 2022 - 20:14
LGBTQ+ theatre should put art before politics and stop pushing a social agenda, said top British playwright Mark Ravenhill ahead of his “queer reinvention” of Puccini’s opera La Boheme...
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