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Theater Renames âSnow Whiteâ -- âDwarfsâ Is Too Offensive | National Review Online
sep 8 2015 De Monfort Hall in Leicester, England, has announced that there will be no dwarves in its Snow White Christmas pantomime because the word âdwarfâ is too offensive. The production will be called âSnow White and her Seven Friendsâ and feature child actors as the âfriends,â according to an article in the Leicester Mercury.
Despite the fact that that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has been around for approximately 9 million years, a spokeswoman for the theater insisted to the Mercury that the word âdwarfâ is âgenerally not a word that people feel comfortable withâ and that the play had to be changed.
But Warwick Davis, a dwarf actor who has appeared in movies including Harry Potter and Star Wars, told the Mercury that heâs suspicious of that explanation: âThe profit margins for pantos are not very big and itâs obviously much cheaper to involve schoolchildren than it is to pay lots of professional short actors,â he said.
Davis also said that, as a dwarf, he found the decision to eliminate dwarfs to be far more offensive than the word could ever be. âPersonally, I find it quite patronizing when people are offended on our behalf,â he said. âIâm sure there are those out there who donât like the term, but as a short actor I want to be given the choice about whether I appear in panto or not. I donât want someone making that decision for me.â