![]() ![]() True to Levy’s scheme, the play allows agency and dignity within the violent victimhood of slavery.Ĭharlotte Gwinner’s high-tempo staging makes the English settlers, with pointed redress, relatively minor characters, but they strikingly include Miranda Foster and Olivia Poulet as snobbish Christian apologists for moral horror. ![]() Trevor Laird, as the elderly “headman” in the slave household, similarly projects the wiliness and pride of someone finding elements of power within an oppressive system. These are played in flashback by Tara Tijani, a drama school graduate this summer who suggests high promise with a performance that captures the agonising rapid calculations necessary to survive in a world allowing her no value. After an extended apprenticeship on radio and in supporting roles, Llewella Gideon gives a star-making performance as Old Miss July, in turn cagey, playful and enraged while both suggesting an ancient survivor and suddenly returning in memory to younger versions of herself. ![]()
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