Review: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, National Theatre
“That’s the thing with coloured folks – they always wanna have a good time”. I’m paraphrasing, but in this one line Lucian Msamati’s Toledo perfectly sums up th...
August Wilson
Review: Fences
Set in 1950s Pittsburgh, Fences is one of August Wilson’s plays about the African-American experience of a divided America. Officially the country was "sepa...
The Director’s Chair: Colourblind casting – the black and white of it
I’m a mongrel: 25% British, 25% Sudanese, 25% Ghanaian, 12.5% Yemeni, 12.5% Turkish. Mongrel is a derogatory term used to describe non-pedigree animals, yet h...