'Remarkable, revelatory, inspiring': Yvonne Brewster pays tribute to actor Mona Hammond
The director remembers her friend, Talawa theatre company co-founder and EastEnders star as a rare talent with phenomenal attention to detail Mavis Chin came to England from Jamaica to take up acting. In those far off days there was no possibility of earning a living acting in her homeland so she studied shorthand and typewriting, saved every penny and finally arrived in England with the intention of going on the sta…