Stage Play About J.K. Rowling ‘TERF’ To Debut Soon

TERF

A new and controversial play is debuting at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival that will undoubtedly ruffle some feathers.

‘TERF’, an upcoming one-act production by American writer Joshua Kaplan (HBO Max’s ‘Tokyo Vice’), will delve into trans issues between the infamous trans-exclusionary radical feminist ‘Harry Potter’ author J.K. Rowling who has been spending her time attacking trans people and allies online.

Surprisingly enough, The Hollywood Reporter reports that the play’s creative team claimed that the play is not a “hit piece and has asked Rowling to attend the show”, an invitation that Kaplan insists is genuine and not an attempt at “trolling.”

The premise of the play is that Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint— the lead actors of Rowling’s books-turned-megahit-films— organize an intervention that would have “interspersed flashback scenes that serve to explain how Rowling developed her rigid views about gender.”

 

Based on the script received by The Hollywood Reporter, the play portrays Rowling as “strong-willed and sharp-tonged but far from a villain” who faces off with key male figures in her life: her first book editor, her abusive ex-husband, and her father. It depicts the former child actors’ relationship with the author as “torn apart by a mother figure who veered into potentially dangerous and increasingly extreme oratorical territory.” Debate follows, but no minds are changed in the end.

The play has received flak from conservatives with American right-wing media even labeling the play as an unjust criticism of Rowling. Conservatives have flooded the production staffers’ social media with hateful messages since the news despite Kaplan’s insistence that it “is a family play”.

The actress who will play Rowling, Laura Kay Bailey, 43, also claimed, “The play tries to be as balanced as possible.”

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