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Day: 25 June, 2019

Strange Fruit, Bush Theatre

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by Maeve Ryan

In this powerful revival of Caryl Phillip’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize-winning play, themes of inter-generational conflict, racism, machismo and cultural disconnection collide in a way that feels disturbingly current.

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