Oh What a Lovely War , Theatre Royal, Stratford East by Mark Shenton

Theatre Royal, Stratford East: The current London import of Broadway's The Scottsboro Boys tells its chastening tale of a major but previously mostly forgotten instance of 1930s American injustice by recasting it as a minstrel show, which simultaneously distances and amplifies the shock of its story. A similar theatrical feat was pulled off more than 50 years ago by Joan Littlewood and her Stratford East troupe …

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