The five-week run of the modern adaptation of Midsummer Night's Dream has been axed - the MEN has spoken to insiders about the extraordinary row.
More details surrounding controversial elements of a new production of Midsummer Night's Dream at the Royal Exchange Theatre have emerged - after the show was cancelled when the director allegedly refused to remove references to 'free Palestine'.
At the end of the now-cancelled production, one member of a group of rappers in the adaptation called the 'mechanicals', called Snug, performs a rap in which there are references to 'ceasefire now'; genocide; and 'mass bloodshed', the M.E.N. has been told. Two other rappers join and make references to 'trans' rights, it is understood.
"Her whole team is very distressed by it. In the end she told the leadership they needed to do it if they wanted to make these cuts and they needed to speak to the team themselves. None of them believe in what they were proposing and they needed to address the team themselves." "Not ignoring you I promise, just taking some time... big love to the cast and crew, it was a special one x."
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