The Telegraph
Black theatre company pulls out of Birmingham theatre over Nightingale Court row
A leading black theatre company has pulled out of staging productions at Birmingham theatre amid row over turning it into a Nightingale Court. Temporary courts have been set up across England and Wales in a bid to deal with the backlog of legal cases brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. The courts, known as Nightingale Courts - in homage to Florence Nightingale, the social reformer and founder of modern nursing - will hear civil and family cases, tribunals and non-custodial criminal cases. However after the Birmingham Repertory Theatre announced that while theatres were forced to close their doors, in accordance with government guidelines, that it would allow its building to host the Nightingale Courts, Talawa Theatre Company announced that it was going to pull out of its partnership. The Times reported that the Company said that it would not stage its Black Joy season at the theatre and that black artists and communities would be "most affected" by the decision to host a judicial court.
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