Leeds Playhouse This portrait of a family devastated by a random stabbing lands its blows with a heavy thud In 2008, random was a sharp retort to the stereotypical "urban" image of soaring knife crime, which Tony Blair had described as an issue "specific to black youth" and gang culture. More than a decade later, neither the violence nor the racial scapegoating have gone away. "Relevant" almost seems like too glib a word, but debbie tucker green's depiction of a family devastated by a random sta...
random review - debbie tucker green lays bare a family's unthinkable pain
The Guardian - 7 Feb 2019 22:32
Leeds Playhouse This portrait of a family devastated by a random stabbing lands its blows with a heavy thud In 2008, random was a sharp retort to the stereotypical "urban" image of soaring knife crime, which Tony Blair had described as an issue "specific to black youth" and gang culture. More than a decade later, neither the violence nor the racial scapegoating have gone away. "Relevant" almost seems like too glib a word, but debbie tucker green's depiction of a family devastated by a random sta...
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