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Princess Essex review " Anne Odeke gives spark to Black British history lesson by Arifa Akbar

Bush theatre, LondonThe performer of this one-woman play steers through multiple characters with charm, but is held back by a story that is less than the sum of its parts Princess Dinubolu of Senegal hit the headlines in 1908 for entering a beauty pageant in Southend-on-Sea. It was controversial for a Black woman to be part of such a competition and she got as far as the second round at the Kursaal amusement park in …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AM on April 17, 2022

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