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

So low ticket sales, no protests, weak reviews and JKR is on a beach somewhere guzzling rum cocktails out of massive pineapples with umbrellas and cherries whilst not giving a shit.

I loved the line in one of the Anne books "hair, which her friends called auburn". Nancy Drew and Jinny (out of the Jinny and Shantih books) were also cool literary redheads.

If someone dresses as a TERF and sits next to Elaine Miller wearing her vulva costume, it would be the original play title

Boom-tish! But now you've got me worrying about how to "dress as a TERF". Is that like "living as a woman"?

I'd sit next to Elaine Miller though, with or without the vulva costume.

I think it's looking like a barren old hag while tutting loudly and hissing like a cat at any men in the vicinity

I suppose you could really go to town on the green, white and violet. Including the Tartanista scarf, which I seem to recall has been criticised/sanctioned for being a political symbol.

I wonder if Josh thought the ones who turn up to berate women for daring to speak would buy tickets?
It's starting to look like they only want to abuse and possibly be violent to women. Funny that.

Have FWR's intrepid reporters been yet?

Sorry, I've forgotten the poster's screen name.

And the fact that they are, to a man, completely unemployable due to being utter mentalists means they cannot afford the tickets.

Talking of Edinburgh Festival shows and reviews, I just read this one, from another play, and was just "err, what?"

www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/aug/07/ugly-sisters-review-germaine-greer-underbelly-cowgate

From The Guardian

She offers a more expansive definition of womanhood, with agency and joy at its heart.
eh?

Is that a claim that OFCK of women are constrained and unhappy?

Spelling

I think they meant that we should define ourselves by a happy feeling rather than by silly things like whether you have a penis or not.

My initial thought was this isn’t really a review, more random jottings of vague memories from a performance.

Episodes imagining Greer’s accidental death, burial and resurrection for a literary Q&A are played for laughs.

Nasty, eh? So the jolly old Guardian gave it four stars. Supports my suspicion that they'd have given Josh's play an extra star if it had been more spiteful against JKR.

They extend a generosity to Greer that is conspicuously absent from her article.

This must be some new definition of generosity not previously familiar to me. It's all very religious. First we kill the witch (in our imaginations since we can't in reality) and then we welcome her saved soul.

FFS. They are so steeped in misogyny they don't even see it.

Agency and joy is a human thing not a gendered thing.

When they draw lines around parts of the human experience or the human personality and say "this is what a woman is" , even if it's the good stuff, they are reproducing the age old pattern of reducing women from complete female humans to stereotypes and metaphors, to cyphers personifying men's thoughts and feelings.

All this Woman is an archetype, a mystery, a muse, a metaphor is fundamentally created within a male-definee culture by men reducing us into an "other" based on the shape of their own psyches.

To male-centered culture Woman can mean anything except an actual flesh and blood human with her own motivations and inner life who creates her own meanings and lives her own reality separate from men's projections.

It's so interesting, the push to claim that one can choose to be a woman. If it's optional then there's no such thing as systematic oppression!

crikey

4 stars eh? takes all sorts I suppose

I do find this 'I want to debate with you but can't so I'll make an imaginary you where I control what you say and do and debate with that' stuff fairly tragic.

I do find this 'I want to debate with you but can't so I'll make an imaginary you where I control what you say and do and debate with that' stuff fairly tragic.

YY.

But it would be so much funnier if she was wearing it though!

I can do that! Shit! I am that!

So, we watched THAT play … a guest post by Susan Chynoweth-Smith

Susan Chynoweth-Smith is a director of For Women Scotland and Beria's Place. She contributed two chapters to the Sunday Times bestseller, The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht.

Unlike most Edinburgh residents, she loves the Fringe, and on Tuesday, 6 August, the offer of a spare ticket tempted her to check out the "Terf" play. No stickering or protests were involved.

Full review can be read here https://juliebindel.substack.com/p/terf

"I debated Joshua Kaplan last month. He is a wazzock"

Oof, it sounds even worse than I assumed.

Thank you for linking to the review @IwantToRetire - I enjoyed it.

The play sounds diabolical: the scene with the T character lying on the ground, mouth taped up and only one (broken) angel wing - poor broken angel 🙄 - and arm stretching out towards mummy Jo sounds grotesque.

Love the phrase about millennial men boiling with politics they barely understand but that they know they need to side with.

I definitely wouldn’t fill one of the hundreds of empty seats in the venue to watch this.

'And a pair of balls swinging freely in the breeze'