Cottesloe; Lyttelton; Southwark Playhouse; all LondonIn 1957 Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, by Errol John, a young Trinidadian, won an Observer drama contest. The task was to write a play set after the second world war. The judges were Peter Hall, Michael Barry, Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness and Kenneth Tynan. But the play was hobbled by West End producers who thought it uncommercial and ordered a rewrite. It is marvellous …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PM on March 17, 2012