An abuser hiding in plain sight

There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?

Jonny Best

IN JUNE 2021, A 48-YEAR-OLD MAN HANGED HIM self 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,…

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