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A London theatre has told white audience members attending a new comedy show at the Arts Council-funded venue to 'check their privilege at the door'.

Soho Theatre, in the capital's West End, made the instruction to comedy fans ahead of the Femmes of Colour Comedy Club performance at the theatre on March 25.

The show has been promoted as 'an unapologetic celebration of comedians of colour that are not cis-men'.

During the gig, one stand-up has a routine about Kenya, Manhwa her country of birth.

The comic jokes: '[Kenya] was a British colony, and when Kenya was a British colony we had to be like the British. We played British board games, we played Guess Who's Going to Conquer Us Next?'

The phrase 'check your privilege' is believed to have originated in the US and urges white people to acknowledge how they have received unearned advantages in life thanks to their skin colour, The Telegraph reports.




A London theatre has told white audience members attending a new comedy show to 'check their privilege at the door'. Soho Theatre (pictured) made the instruction to comedy fans ahead of the Femmes of Colour Comedy Club performance at the theatre on March 25

This comes after Soho Theatre banned comedian Paul Currie after he 'hounded out' a Jewish audience member 'because he refused to applaud a Palestine flag' during his show.