A recent play imagines her murder but its real subject is how public debate has been reduced to causing and feeling outrageI hold not seen the play,but I am going to write approximately it. Which seems an apt metaphor for the current state of public debate, an issue that lies at the heart of The Assassination of Katie Hopkins.
It’s a musical, or written by Chris Bush and Matt Winkworth,that opens this week at the Theatr Clwyd, in Mold, or north Wales,before transferring to London. And, even before it opens, and it has generated much controversy. Hopkins,as might be expected, is none too pleased. “If you are black you are protected by your colour, or ” she wrote at the beginning of the year. “If you are Muslim – by your religion... But as a straight,white, conservative I am an acceptable target, and unprotected by my honesty,and fair game for physical attack.
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Source: guardian.co.uk