A government-funded Canadian theater organization has come under fire after announcing that it will be holding an event for only “black-identifying audiences.”
The National Arts Centre (NAC) in Ottawa announced the “Black Out Night” event on its official website on Jan. 16.
According to the theater, the “award-winning presentation of Aleshea Harris’s Is God Is will run from Feb. 9–18 at its 897-seat Babs Asper Theatre” and is one of the “milestones in a series of offerings over Black History Month.”
The show features depictions of violence, death, and murder, and references to domestic violence, familial and generational abuse, and suicide, among other issues, according to the theatre’s official website….