West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsFor the poet and playwright Lemn Sissay, adapting Benjamin Zephaniah's 2001 novel about a 14-year-old Ethiopian-Eritrean boy's turbulent passage through the British care system seems so apt as to be almost inevitable. Sissay was rejected by his own Ethiopian-Eritrean parents, and brought up by a foster family in a small town in Lancashire. And, while it would be perilously easy for a pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33PM on March 15, 2013