Two Female Writers Claim They Were Pushed Out of Idris Elba Play

[hewontgo]

Two Female Writers Claim They Were Pushed Out of Idris Elba Play https://t.co/smOY1OCyHt pic.twitter.com/R6xih8fuiO
- Hollywood Reporter (@THR) July 3, 2019
Two female writers claim they were removed, without credit, from a high-profile British theater production

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[daijouboo]

Just here to say I did not enjoy (or finish) Idris' directorial debut Yardie.

[girl_overboard]

It doesn't sound like Idris had anything to do with this, he's just tied to the play.

Also...

They acknowledged that Henley and Allen-Martin were involved in "exploring ideas for a project based on Idris’ original concept," but took issue with the writers' portrayal of events. "The fact of the matter is that MIF and Green Door did not feel their proposed direction was artistically viable," they wrote. "It was decided by these producers that the show needed to go in a very different direction with a new writer attached, using Idris Elba’s original concept as the starting point."

[saintclaire87]

Kwame Kwei-Armah is getting dragged about this on his Twitter.

This is my personal response to the allegations made by Tori n Sarah. There will be an official statement but didn’t want anyone to think that I would hide behind that. would be happy and in fact encourage a public discussion with Tori n Sarah n myself at a venue of their choice pic.twitter.com/4rDTyc53UP
- Kwame Kwei-Armah (@kwamekweiarmah) July 2, 2019

[momsapplelie]

Writers and directors get removed all the time. Workshopping something isn't the same as actually putting pen to page and it says the original idea was Idris' anyway? It sounds like they wanted to go in a different direction and had literal creative differences.

Trust me, it sucks but it happens.

And tbh it's not easy being on the other side either, bringing people onto a project watching them get excited about their ideas and having it clash with your original vision and trying to steer them back to that ugh

[aristobrit]

Just came to say this literally happens ALL THE TIME in the theater. Like, all the time, day in, day out. People deserve combat pay for working in the theater. Some very big hits have gotten off with very rocky starts. There is almost always a falling out at some point between the writers, the director, the producers, it's usually always ugly somewhere down the line.

It starts off casually so there are no contracts spelling everything out on the table. Then there are disagreements and misunderstandings, and because nothing was spelled out to start, it gets to be a food fight.

[of_baron]

I hope Elba wasn't responsible/couldn't have stopped it.