The Daily Mail’s Quentin Letts has been accused of displaying a “blatantly racist attitude” by the Royal Shakespeare Company after the columnist suggested one of its actors was given a role because he is black.
Letts used a review of the RSC’s production of Mary Pix’s ‘The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich’ to question the casting of thespian Leo Wringer as the older Clerimont in the play.
“Was Mr Wringer cast because he is black?” Letts wrote in his review. “If so, the RSC’s clunking approach to politically correct casting has again weakened its stage product.”
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