'We needed this': UK audiences thirsty for black British love stories, says playwright
As Benedict Lombe's play Shifters transfers to West End, she is only third black British woman to have play staged there Theatre audiences are "thirsty" for romance stories told from a black perspective, according to a playwright who is only the third black British woman to have a production put on in the West End, the heartland of UK commercial theatre. Benedict Lombe's play Shifters is transferring to the West End …