![]() ![]() Creating a piece of fiction – whether it’s a musical, a film, a novel or anything else – is supposed to involve the imagination. And even then he’d have had to end Henry V half way through Act II, because after that it’s set in France.Īt any rate, the reasoning behind the new rule, if reasoning isn’t too strong a word, is that writing about a country other than your own constitutes “cultural appropriation”. All we’d have is King Lear, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and the histories. Otherwise we’d have been deprived of almost every play he wrote. I suppose we should just be grateful that this peculiar rule didn’t exist in Shakespeare’s day. ![]() Nor, as far as I’m aware, have they ever lived in Nazareth, which rules out Jesus Christ Superstar. “If Tim and I were to be doing Evita today,” he added, “I think there would be a lot of people who would say, ‘Well, they’re not qualified to do this, because they’re not Argentine.’”īy this logic, they shouldn’t have written Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, either, given that neither of them grew up in ancient Canaan. The new rule, it seems, is that artists must write only about the country they come from, and that’s that. “But everyone was saying to me, ‘You can’t do this – because you’re not from that country.’” “There was a subject that I really wanted to consider doing,” he revealed this week, on I Never Thought It Would Happen, a popular podcast about music. The problem with his proposed musical, apparently, is that it wasn’t set in Britain. Nor was his idea homophobic, transphobic, fatphobic or ableist. ![]() Andrew Lloyd Webber has abandoned an idea for a new musical, after he was told that it might cause offence. ![]()
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