Theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected "child rape porn"

[Jim Burton]

https://thecritic.co.uk/an-abuser-hidin ... ain-sight/

In June 2021, a 48-year-old man hanged himself in London. He called himself an “anti-capitalist queer”, and he was a playwright and theatre director celebrated as a genius by his queer, anti-capitalist comrades and the theatres who liked a bit of queer anti-capitalism to spice up their programmes. He was “British theatre’s greatest maverick talent”, according to the Guardian.

His name was Chris Goode and his company, Chris Goode and Co, had an idealistic approach to making theatre: “We tell stories that are both accessible and inclusive. And we think out loud about who we are, hoping to catch a glimpse of how we might live better together … we create bold original work that represents queer, dissident, and politically nonconformist perspectives.”

Unfortunately, under all that inclusion, queerness and anti-capitalism, it turns out that Chris Goode was a serial abuser of young male actors in his companies, and a paedophile who had collected child rape porn for at least 20 years. When the truth came out, he was arrested, bailed, and he ended his life a few days later. There was very little response to his death. The theatres who lionised him, and the cultural bigwigs on his company’s board of advisors, all lost their tongues. The situation was especially awkward because Goode’s writing had pointed towards his interest in young children for some time.

https://theface.com/society/ponyboy-cur ... hris-goode