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Nick Clark

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on The Comeuppance: ‘Why write subtly – who cares? Give me something to talk about'

A decade ago, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins wrote a play about a high school reunion only to put it in a drawer, frustrated that he just couldn’t make it work.

Fast forward to shortly after lockdown, he was at reunion event for his own high school and learned that a once close friend had died and he was shocked he hadn’t found out before.

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