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Outstanding Windrush drama
MARY CONWAY applauds a brilliant theatrical adaptation of Sam Selvon’s classic 1950s novel of oppression, betrayal and resilience

The Lonely Londoners
Kiln Theatre, London

THE play, The Lonely Londoners, sees playwright Roy Williams and director Ebenezer Bamgboye join forces to adapt Sam Selvon’s exquisite classic novel of the 1950s and land it in fabulous form on the Kiln stage. 

You’d think it would be impossible to capture a book of such literary and geographical precision in one confined space. The Kiln team, however, not only fulfil the dream but create an exemplary piece of theatre.  

The setting is familiar: London in the 1950s with the Windrush generation flowing in. Trinidadian Moses, now living in London, fulfils an accidentally acquired role: that of meeting new arrivals from the Caribbean and helping them navigate the big bad city.

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