Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughJanice Okoh's version of the 2019 novel waters down the culture clash at its heart and suffers for the lack of the author's rich prose After Benjamin Myers published The Offing in 2019, one shrewd critic said if the novel were a play it would be "a classic two-hander". On the one hand, you have Robert, a 16-year-old from a County Durham mining village, taking an open-ended trek down…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM on October 22, 2021