Producers used to say: 'Black plays won't work in the West End.' Not any more, says actor David Harewood, as the National theatre celebrates 50 years of breakthroughsI once heard something that made me doubt an audience's capacity to use its imagination. It was 2004, and I was performing in an adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials at the National theatre. Pullman's remarkable story presents an array of fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25PM on July 17, 2013