It would be a tragedy if the lockdown left drama narrower and risk-averse. Our chief critic hears from Kwame Kwei-Armah, Indhu Rubasingham, Lynette Linton and Rachel De-lahay
As protests over the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota spread to Britain, Kwame Kwei-Armah, artistic director of the Young Vic, put out a tweet: “Racism is bolstered by the stories we tell.” Kwei-Armah, who spent seven years at Baltimore’s Center Stage before returning to London in 2018, is among the cultural leaders in the UK speaking up about the role and responsibility of the arts in relation to systemic racism in the world at large.
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