The play, titled TERF, imagines the stars of the Harry Potter film franchise staging an "intervention" for the author who has repeatedly argued online that trans women are not women. The show's Edinburgh-based producer, Barry Church-Woods, spoke about security measures they had taken at the play's Assembly Rooms venue.
"We expect that most people, if they're intending on disrupting what we're doing, that will happen in the auditorium of the theatre. We have processes in place that are going to deal with that," Mr Church-Woods said.
Writer Joshua Kaplan has denied that TERF - an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist was a "hit piece" on Rowling and said that any "preconceived ideas" about the author being a "pantomime villain" should be dismantled early in the production.
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