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Why do theatres think audiences want Covid-related drama?

Several short new plays from the Orange Tree Theatre and Stewart Melton show lockdown is a tricky theme to make work about

The Kiss reaches its climax when Lou (Temi Wilkey) gives a guinea pig a cuddle. Photo: Ali Wright 
issue 24 April 2021

Hats off to the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond. They’ve discovered a new form of racism. Some people say we have enough ethnic division already but in south-west London they’re gagging for more apparently. A new play, Prodigal, examines the prejudice endured by a Ugandan chap whose mother moved to London when he was a child and whose younger siblings are British.

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