As Jocelyn Bioh's play about life in a Harlem hairdresser's gets a London run, she and director Monique Touko explain why its story of west Africans styling themselves for life in the US will resonate across the Atlantic It is an uncomfortably hot morning in Harlem, New York, as two women open the shutters of a braiding salon. It appears to be a day like any other, as a band of hairdressers turn their customers' intr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PM on March 4, 2026