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Five of the best… plays this week by Lyn Gardner

Les Blancs | Hamlet | The James Plays | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Funny GirlLorraine Hansberry is best known for her play A Raisin In The Sun and for inspiring Nina Simone's To Be Young, Gifted And Black. She died, aged 34, before she could complete Les Blancs, a huge sprawling indictment of colonialism and the mess it left behind. Centred on a Christian mission in a bitterly divided African country, the play was l…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AM on May 27, 2016

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