's co-star, Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, after she was cast as Juliet, and he says the abuse"must stop."
Jamie Lloyd shared a statement condemning the harassment after his theater company announced the full cast of its upcoming run at London's Duke of York's Theatre. The cast includes Holland , Amewudah-Rivers , Freema Agyeman , Michael Balogun , Tomiwa Edun , Mia Jerome , Daniel Quinn-Toye and Ray Sesay .cast, there has been a barrage of deplorable racial abuse online directed towards a member of our company. THIS MUST STOP,"."We are working with a remarkable group of artists.
The statement continued,"We will continue to support and protect everyone in our company at all costs. Any abuse will not be tolerated and will be reported. Bullying and harassment have no place, in our industry or in our wider communities." While Lloyd never mentioned the cast member on the receiving end of the"deplorable racial abuse," it's announcing her casting being flooded both with messages of support for earning the role and online trolls denouncing her selection as Juliet.
The new production of Shakespeare's romantic tragedy will mark Holland's return to the stage for the first time since
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