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Radha Blank: 'Failure is a great tool in comedy'

by Claire Armitstead

After years of struggling on Broadway, the writer, actor and director takes aim at New York's theatre establishment in her hit film The Forty-Year-Old Version There's a moment in The Forty-Year-Old Version when frustrated playwright Radha becomes so enraged by an elderly white theatre producer that she has to be physically prevented from throttling him. He has just suggested that, if she's unwilling to put a white ch…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36am on October 4, 2020