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Delroy Lindo as Bynum Walker and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Herald Loomis - Photo: Simon Annand

REVIEW: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Young Vic (2010)

The performances are all good but Delroy Lindo's inspirational, sympathetic old visionary and healer and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith's haunted Herald Loomis stand out as mesmerising. David Lan's intelligent production will make you think about the damage done by those years' of uprooting and slavery to the psyche of the African American.

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Sharon Duncan-Brewster as Susan and Kobna Holdbrook Smith as Jeremy - Photo: Tristram Kenton

REVIEW: Seize The Day, Tricycle (2009)

The joyous thing about Kwame's dramatic writing is the minutely observed detail, a delicious comedic warmth and the way he tempers serious political points with gentle amusement. In my book, it is a much more effective way of delivering a message than hitting the audience over the head with doctrine.

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