
King Richard, Wheel of Time and new Zadie Smith play reviewed, Playwright Moira Buffini
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Film Review - Is Eda Richad a Black Man?
"It was really great to see father, a loving black father and a family who are doing really, really well in their respective fields as sport stars or as no future lawyers. And i think that was one of the key elements why it was so refreshing and inspiring," she says. Zadie smith has written a contemporary version of chaucer's wife of bath's tale for the kiln theatre in london. In this modern imagining, the lusty, wealthy older woman is alvita, a british woman of jamaican heritage. The play takes place at a pub in north west london that smith knows so well from her novel such as white teeth.
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