Two female writers claim they helped develop the play but Elba and director Kwame Kwei-Armah removed them from the project without credit.
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, an album of music Elba produced in South Africa in 2014 inspired by his late father and his performance as Nelsen Mandela in the filmalbum — and Henley were involved in the initial workshopping of the project but decided to leave when Elba and Kwei-Armah chose a "new direction" for the play. "They expressed their reasoning and we respected their decision," Elba wrote, adding that both women have been credited in the forward of the program printed for the play's first preview in Manchester. He, however, reiterated thatwas based on his original idea and that he had the right to go ahead with the project without the two women's involvement.
"We wanted to offer an opportunity to support these new writers while creating a piece of work of scale and to a director's vision," Elba writes. “The outcome is an accusation of plagiarism and discrimination."
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