Accio controversy! ‘TERF’, a new one-act play which is set to premiere next month at the Edinburgh Fringe takes on Rowling and imagines “intervention” between the controversial author and the Harry Potter film stars. The backlash has already begun..
. It seems like barely a week goes by without Harry Potter author J.K.
Rowling for some hostile comments aimed at transgender people. And now, a new show coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival next month is sure to set tongues wagging. The Telegraph has already called it “the most provocative play to hit the Edinburgh Fringe in years.
” ‘TERF’, a new one-act play which is set to premiere on 2 August, has become one of the most talked-about plays heading to the festival this year. It’s being put on, rather aptly, by the Civil Disobedience & Theatre of the Existential Void, with the tagline “She had everything..
. Until it all went to hell in a broombasket.” The play – originally supposed to be titled ‘TERF C***’ (ask your parents) - is an international collaboration in support of gender equality.
It takes on Rowling, a vocal supporter of the gender-critical movement which seeks to ban transgender women from women-only spaces and services, and depicts an imagined “intervention” between the controversial author and the Harry Potter film stars, who have been . TERF is an acronym that stands for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist”, a slur used by transgender activists against gender critics like Rowl.
