Missed opportunities
The UK-US divide between the exposure given to black artists has surfaced in the blogosphere this week. Bonnie Greer noted on Comment is Free that the days when “black people acted, directed and wrote plays” were “gone with the wind”. After coming to the UK twenty-two years ago to join a “thriving” and representative theatre scene, she concludes that this has all but disappeared.
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