Princess Essex review " black beauty queen turns Edwardian idiocy on itself
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonVaudevillian musical stages the story of a woman who cast herself as Princess Dinubolu of Senegal to become a beauty queen in 1908 Southend In Southend-on-Sea, 1908, Princess Dinubolu of Senegal became the first woman of colour to enter a beauty pageant in the UK. Whether she was really royalty remains unknown, but playwright and actor Anne Odeke explores the possibilities presented by thos…
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