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Robert Dex

Royal Court Theatre staff to get anti-semitism training after play controversy

A scene from Rare Earth Mettle at the Royal Court Theatre

(Picture: Helen Murray)

An award-winning west London theatre says its staff will get “specialist training on antisemitism” after it apologised for giving a fictional billionaire the name Hershel Fink.

An internal review into the controversy said the “name and aspects of the character’s personality could be seen as an antisemitic trope”.

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