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'We must give black talent the stage' says Young Vic's Kwame Kwei-Armah

by Vanessa Thorpe

Playwright and director says BLM and the lockdown have prompted him to stage a financially risky season of black work British culture has been guilty of "hoodwinking" black people into thinking they are "invaders", the artistic director of London's Young Vic theatre, Kwame Kwei-Armah, has told the Observer. In his strongest comments yet on race, the British actor, playwright and director said the Black Lives Matter p…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 1:24pm on August 15, 2020