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On 1st March, the Royal Court Theatre made an extraordinary admission. In an internal report into its own mistakes, the theatre’s board recognised that “people working in theatre often feel uncomfortable in disclosing that they are Jewish.” They’re not wrong. As one young Jewish theatre-maker told me recently: “I sometimes feel Jewish people in theatre need our own #MeToo movement—not to compare our experience to the crimes addressed by that movement, but as a model for finally breaking silence.”