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PIC CAP Groundbreaking: A Museum in Baghdad in rehearsal Pic: RSC
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ON THE first day of rehearsals for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of A Museum in Baghdad, writer Hannah Khalil looked around the studio at the big cast.
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“It was an emotional moment,” says the Irish-Palestinian dramatist. “I felt really proud, because that’s what I wanted to do — to write good, exciting, meaty, real parts for non-white actors.”
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