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\n\tProminent Black actors together with No Time to Die<\/em> star Lashana Lynch and Enola Holmes\u2019<\/em> Susan Wokoma have signed an open letter decrying the abuse confronted by Francesca Amewudah-Rivers<\/a> after she was solid in a West End theatre manufacturing of Romeo & Juliet<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Jamie Lloyd Company<\/a> introduced final month<\/a> that Amewudah-Rivers will play Juliet alongside Tom Holland<\/a>\u2018s Romeo in the staging of William Shakespeare\u2019s tragedy, which opens on the Duke of York\u2019s Theatre on May 23.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Guardian <\/em>newspaper reported that 883 folks had supported the open letter, which was organized by Wokoma and author Somalia Nony\u00e9 Seaton. Signatories embrace Sheila Atim (The Woman King<\/em>), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets & Lies<\/em>), Lolly Adefope (Ghosts<\/em>), Freema Agyeman (Doctor Who<\/em>), Wunmi Mosaku (Damilola, Our Loved Boy<\/em>), and Tamara Lawrance (Time<\/em>).<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cToo many times, Black performers \u2013 particularly Black actresses \u2013 are left to face the storm of online abuse after committing the crime of getting a job on their own,\u201d the letter mentioned.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe racist and misogynistic abuse directed at such a sweet soul has been too much to bear. For a casting announcement of a play to ignite such twisted ugly abuse is truly embarrassing for those so empty and barren in their own lives that they must meddle in hateful abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIt added: \u201cToo many occasions theatre corporations, broadcasters, producers and streamers have failed to supply any assist or assist when their Black artists face racist or misogynistic abuse. Reporting is just too typically left on the shoulders of the abused, who’re additionally then anticipated to advertise mentioned present.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe want to send a clear message to Francesca and all Black women performers who face this kind of abuse \u2013 we see you. We see the art you manage to produce with not only the pressures that your white colleagues face but with the added traumatic hurdle of misogynoir.\u201d<\/p>\n