Where’s The Conservative Backlash?

“After the forced closure of Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s play ‘Behzti’ in December, two things were widely predicted. One was that theatres would become more conservative in their programming of potentially contentious Asian work (particularly on religious and sexual themes). The other was that it would be more difficult for theatres to retain an already fragile (and tiny) non-white audience.” In fact, neither has happened…