Trouble in Mind review " rage and racism rock the rehearsal room
Dorfman theatre, LondonA play-within-a-play provides an ingenious platform for drama in Alice Childress's still-pertinent 1955 unpicking of American racism Race is "an explosive subject", says a theatre director to actors limbering up for a "coloured show" on Broadway. But Al Manners is hoping to make this subject less "antagonising" for a New York audience of 1955, whatever the cost to his black actors. So the rehea…