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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Robbie Griffiths

Rose Ayling-Ellis’s Shakespeare show upset by a ‘shocking anti-deaf’ rant

ON SATURDAY, The Londoner was at the Soho Place Theatre to catch one of the last performances of As You Like It.

Midway through the matinee show, a man sitting in the circle started ranting. “I’m being discriminated against”, he cried, claiming the performers were “discriminating against hearing people”. He was upset by the presence of four screens displaying Shakespeare’s verse for the benefit of deaf theatre-goers.

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