{"id":135410,"date":"2017-12-01T01:19:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T06:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=135410"},"modified":"2017-12-01T01:19:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T06:19:04","slug":"geoffrey-rush-denies-inappropriate-behaviour-at-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/01\/geoffrey-rush-denies-inappropriate-behaviour-at-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoffrey Rush denies &#8216;inappropriate behaviour&#8217; at theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_135413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135413\" style=\"width: 706px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/706px-Geoffrey_Rush_Berlinale_2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135413\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/706px-Geoffrey_Rush_Berlinale_2017.jpg\" alt=\"The Sydney Theatre Company says it received a complaint of \u201cinappropriate behaviour\u201d against Geoffrey Rush, an allegation lawyers for the Oscar winner denied. (Photo By Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0)\" width=\"706\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/706px-Geoffrey_Rush_Berlinale_2017.jpg 706w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/706px-Geoffrey_Rush_Berlinale_2017-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-135413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sydney Theatre Company says it received a complaint of \u201cinappropriate behaviour\u201d against Geoffrey Rush, an allegation lawyers for the Oscar winner denied. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=59451182\">(Photo By Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CANBERRA, Australia \u2014 The Sydney Theatre Company says it received a complaint of \u201cinappropriate behaviour\u201d against Geoffrey Rush, an allegation lawyers for the Oscar winner denied.<\/p>\n<p>The company was not disclosing details of the behaviour alleged to have occurred while the 66-year-old Australian actor was an employee.<\/p>\n<p>HWL Ebsworth Lawyers did not respond to a request for comment Friday, but had issued an earlier statement denying Rush was involved in any inappropriate behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Australian media reports say the allegation dated from Rush&#8217;s participation in the theatre&#8217;s production of William Shakespeare&#8217;s \u201cKing Lear\u201d from November 2015 to January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney&#8217;s The Daily Telegraph cited two unnamed theatre sources in reporting Friday that an actress had accused Rush of touching her inappropriately. The sources told the newspaper the theatre wouldn&#8217;t work with Rush again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANBERRA, Australia \u2014 The Sydney Theatre Company says it received a complaint of \u201cinappropriate behaviour\u201d against Geoffrey Rush, an allegation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":135413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106,16,17],"tags":[36502,36503,36504,4210],"class_list":["post-135410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","category-news","category-news-w","tag-geoffrey-rush","tag-inappropriate-behaviour","tag-sydney-theatre-company","tag-theatre","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}