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Dominique Morisseau Pulls ‘Paradise Blue’ From Geffen Playhouse, Says Black Women Were ‘Verbally Abused’

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comes a week after the play’s west coast premiere.In a lengthy statement posted Nov. 24 to her Facebook page, Morriseau announced the decision to pull the play, and said she expected the Geffen Playhouse to dismiss and sweep the matter “under the rug.”Morisseau didn’t go into detail about what precisely had occurred, but she said that unnamed Black women working on the play were “verbally abused and diminished,” and that Geffen Playhouse didn’t deal the matter appropriately.

Morisseau said she repeatedly contacted Geffen Playhouse, which made “commitments to do a thing,” only to do “the exact opposite of that commitment.

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