Whitewash review " mother and son on the frontline of racial tension
Soho theatre, LondonA young man plans to privatise the estate where he grew up in Gabriel Bisset-Smith's quick-witted drama about identity and belonging Mary is mixed-race; her son Lysander is snowy white-skinned. In 1989, as racial tensions in north London loom, Mary is often mistaken for Lysander's nanny. Sometimes there are suspicions that she is his kidnapper. Writer Gabriel Bisset-Smith plays Lysander opposite R…