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Pete Ashmore as Arnold Champion-Cheney, Jane Asher as Kitty and Clive Francis as Clive. (Photo: Ellie Kurttz)

REVIEW: The Circle, Orange Tree (2023)

The Circle of Infidelity "She's a silly worthless woman who has led a silly worthless life "Clive about Kitty"If a husband is unfaithful to his wife, she is an object…

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Les Blancs, Olivier National Theatre (2016)
Sheila Atim as The Woman (Photo: Johan Persson)

REVIEW: Les Blancs, Olivier National Theatre (2016)

This production is spellbinding and its momentum stays with me occupying my thoughts, whirring like the revolving stage. The text, finalised by Lorraine Hansberry's former husband and literary executor Robert Nemiroff, would bear much further study to grasp all its themes and nuances. Written from her viewpoint in the 1960s by American playwright Lorraine Hansberry, the original person to be described as "young, gifted and black", her unfinished play Les Blancs, examines an unnamed African country on the brink of revolution and independence from colonial rule. Lorraine Hansberry was in her mid thirties when she tragically died of pancreatic cancer.

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