Darkness and love for a British-Caribbean family
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Darkness and love for a British-Caribbean family

The “content advice” for The Darkest Part of The Night lists “Death of a parent, racial discrimination, police brutality/violence, poverty, structural oppression, ableism, detailed medical talk, mild sexual references, domestic violence, mental healthcare system.” It’s actually about love.

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Africa comes into fashion
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Africa comes into fashion

A second explosion of African colour and creativity is lighting up London, as Africa Fashion at the V&A joins In The Black Fantastic at the Hayward Gallery.

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Race against time
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Race against time

There’s no escaping race in The Fellowship, a drama about three generations of a British Caribbean family.

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Join In The Black Fantastic
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Join In The Black Fantastic

Enter the Hayward Gallery and be hit by an explosion of colour, fantasy, imagination, masquerade, exuberance and weirdness. It’s a joy.

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Asian beauty amidst lurking beasts
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Asian beauty amidst lurking beasts

Playwright Satinder Chohan’s play set in a Southall salon starts as beauty and business banter and and careens into drama and emotional turmoil.

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Mary, Mary, quite contrary
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Mary, Mary, quite contrary

The title, Marys Seacole, tells you this isn’t going to be a straightforward biography of the Jamaican nurse and entrepreneur who set up the British Hotel behind the lines in the Crimean War in the 1850s.

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Gender turf war in the surf
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Gender turf war in the surf

Another wave, another film about female surfers and, like all the others, ‘Bangla Surf Girls’ is fascinating because it’s about sexism.

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Diary of a forgotten war
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Diary of a forgotten war

How does it feel to be forgotten by the world, asks the publicity blurb for ‘Myanmar Diaries’ - a reasonable question for a pro-democracy struggle that’s been shoved from headlines in many parts of the world.

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Listening to the silence of asylum-seekers
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Listening to the silence of asylum-seekers

‘Silence Heard Loud’ ought to be a happy film, because it’s about people who have escaped harrowing — in some cases deadly — circumstances and lived to tell their tale.

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The Unfinished is finished - and worth the wait
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The Unfinished is finished - and worth the wait

Almost four years since Dipo Baruwa-Etti was commissioned to write An Unfinished Man, and 13 drafts and two Covid years since it was initially due to open, it’s here. And it’s worth the wait.

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