Ever since she was announced as the West End’s new Juliet in March, Bad Education’s Francesca Amewudah-Rivers has received a nasty barrage of racist abuse from the usual suspects online. Amewudah-Rivers will star alongside Tom Holland in the Jamie Lloyd Company’s new staging of Romeo & Juliet, which opens in London this May. But while the backlash obviously should never have happened in the first place, it’s become clear in the past few days just how much support Amewudah-Rivers truly has... Read this story