Edinburgh Arts Group to launch play about JKR called TERF C**T – where Daniel, Rupert and Emma stage an 'intervention'

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The play, which will be performed on stage in New York next month and is being touted for the Fringe this summer, sees the author's 'surrogate children – Daniel, Rupert and Emma' stage an 'intervention'

Civil Disobedience, which has its roots in the Edinburgh Fringe and was launched by Barry and Josef Church-Woods in May 2016, described it as a "vital think-piece on Joanne, exploring just what could motivate a person with such privilege to take such a divisive stance on issues that affect her fans".

It has been written by Joshua Kaplan, a "queer screenwriter and playwright", and will be performed at The Actors Studio in New York City on Thursday, February 8.

A press release advertising the show claims: "Please note: TERF C**T is not a kill piece. It provides space for reflection and ultimately offers the audience time to explore some of the more contentious aspects of JK's life."

The synopsis for the show continues: "Joanne led a blessed life – for a woman. Billionaire. Literary phenomenon. Natural ginger. And most importantly, beloved. Completely beloved. Until she blew it all to hell.

"From book deals to divorces, family dysfunction to broken friendships, TERF C**T goes beyond the headlines to explore the woman that captivated a world with her books only to unravel a legacy with her tweets."

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/celebrity-news/jk-rowling-attacked-standing-up-31948409

I suppose that depends how much influence the lawyers have had on the script and what their understanding of hate crime legislation is.

But surely the Hate Monster said that anyone’s feelings being hurt meant that a Terrible Hate Crime had been committed and therefore Scotland’s finest constabulary would immediately rush to the rescue and arrest the perpetrators?

Can I say now that I’m hurt and offended? Just to avoid the rush, like.

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I dunno, rather than protests wouldn't it be best to just completely ignore them? It's a play called "terf cunt", they're clearly absolutely desperate for attention. I see it like trying to have a conversation with a toddler in the middle of them having a tantrum.

I don't think anyone is planning to protest

I thought the same. The Assembly Rooms is a massively high profile venue. How come it had a vacancy?

and expensive! So they either have someone funding them or connections. Either way, I’m sure he’s gambling in there being terfy protests and him getting loads of publicity.

I think he doesn’t know his audience. Terfs don’t protest, we want them to speak.

i bought 4 tickets for the opening morning. We’re all going, no anti anything t shirts and I’m looking forward to it.

the fringe is full of weird and rubbish shows. The assembly rooms isn’t.

Is it Assembly Rooms or an offshoot? "Assembly" have grown into lots of other venues, almost a mini-Fringe of their own.

According to the Fringe booking site it's in the Ballroom at the actual Assembly Rooms in George Street and the AR website tells me that space has 350 seats.

Blimey, I thought it was going to be three people and a cat in the audience!

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There still could be.

There are over 3,500 shows listed on the Fringe website.

This daft production is on for 22 days, so to be sold out would have to flog 7,700 tickets.

Oh, and as far as I can bother to check, the performances are at 11.40 in the morning.

I'll just leave this here;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Producers_(1967_film)

Cracking film! 😄

And bless him he's "open to" screen adaptations. Have we ever met anyone who wasn't?

"Open to screen adaptations"? He's clearly another one from the Jolyon Maugham School of Delusions of Importance, I see!

'Douglas is cancelled' started off as an unsuccessful stage play script.

Perhaps the author thinks "That could be me".

Was rather better written than this is likely to be, though. Cast of good actors, too.

Well, quite, although it was rewritten for TV. Still, I would hazard a guess that even the unsuccessful, unstaged first version of Douglas was better written than TERF.

I suspect they must have a lot of financial backing. I don't imagine the Ballroom will be cheap to hire and the length of their run means they have to sell a lot of tickets to break even. About half their shows are in the morning and the other half mid afternoon, so not peak time.

I think the whole thing is a grift and will probably do well for the grifter.

Pick a controversial tribal topic, drip feed stories suggesting conflict, controversy and censorship to keep it visible, sell tickets to people on both sides and hope someone kicks off on the night for even more headlines.

Rinse and repeat through Fringe, off Broadway and whatever the London equivalent is, picking up more recognition and profile on the way.

I doubt the goal here is the play, it's the author's career that's the real product. The play is just a smart strategy to build a brand.

I think you're probably right, Flirts, but I don't think it'll be successful.

As I've pointed out before, there are lots of mediocrities grifting off slagging off JKR to their echo chamber.

I'm not sure he's slagging her JKR as such, he's not an ideologue but a controversialist. That's a problem for his script because all his characters' lawyers must have been over this though not for "hate crime" just defamation. Which also makes a screen adaptation unlikely. Unlike JKR their careers could be impacted and they could easily get nasty.

From his a point of view a well-publicised TRA protest centered round the show (perhaps triggered by a terfy Tshirt) would be just as useful. He makes himself look brave either way.

The snippets of script that someone linked to earlier looked amusing enough but Assembly Rooms are usually too expensive to go on spec. For me anyway. I might go later if @Seriestwo says it's worthwhile. Or if it gets reviews that say more about wit than controversy.

I think you're right about the aim too.

One of the observations made fairly frequently on here is that gender-critical feminist books, despite publishers being reluctant to take them on, often sell very well when published because middle-aged women form the main book-buying demographic. Books by trans activists sell less well because young people, particularly of the blue-haired variety, prefer Tik Tok to reading.

The same is broadly true of theatre. Although people of all ages visit the fringe, theatre-goers are mostly middle-aged or older. How many will want to watch this ludicrous play about JK Rowling? I just can't see it. The young Edinburgh crowd meanwhile will be off watching Ivo Graham and Nish Kumar and the like.

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