Pleasance Dome, EdinburghThe first country to abolish slavery has been demonised and minimised, as Emily Aboud's alternately fascinating and frustrating play reveals "Europe has erased the Haitian revolution from the history books," says one of the actors in Emily Aboud's broadside for Lagahoo Productions, a lively patchwork of a play that claims not to be about slavery, but kind of is. The playwright contends that H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PM on August 7, 2022