Controversy erupts over Idris Elba's South African themed play.
, put on by Idris Elba and director and playwright, Kwame Kwei-Armah, premiered at the Manchester International Festival.
The story follows Kaelo played by Alfred Enoch , a London-born man forced by a family tragedy to travel to his parents’ homeland of South Africa. "For us it’s been devastating proof of the way doors are shut on women, and on the underdogs. We became completely disposable because we’re not famous or important enough. We were expected to shut up, lie down, and take it," they explained.
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