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The week in theatre: King Hedley II; Rutherford and Son; The Starry Messenger " review by Susannah Clapp

Royal Theatre Stratford East; Lyttelton; Wyndham's, LondonLenny Henry and Aaron Pierre are supercharged in August Wilson's epic while Roger Allam excels as a stern Edwardian patriarch August Wilson had a mighty project as a playwright. In a series of 10 plays he set out to chart the inner and outer experience of 20th-century African Americans decade by decade, plaiting together documentary and dream life. The result …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM on June 2, 2019

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