Talk about triumph over adversity. The final part of Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s state-of-the nation cycle about the black and white British working class experience was delayed when actress Jo Martin withdrew through illness. It opened last night with Sharon Duncan-Brewster heriocally standing in after a week’s rehearsal.
Her script-in-hand performance as London Jamaican matriarch Denise is riveting: so too that of Hayley Squires as Carly, her white “daughter in sin”. Their love-hate relationship feels deep, detailed and combustively alive.
