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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Arifa Akbar

I Dream of Theresa May review – willing immigrant’s political conversion spurs stiff debate

Socially awkward … Amy Allen as then home secretary Theresa May, with Taraash Mehrotra and Tanya Katyal.
Socially awkward … Amy Allen as then home secretary Theresa May, with Taraash Mehrotra and Tanya Katyal. Photograph: Adam Razvi/Tara theatre

Remember Theresa May and her 2016 “citizen” speech (“If you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere”) at the height of her suspicious policies on immigration?

Well, here she is back in her former pomp as home secretary, appearing as a spectre that looms over Vivek Nityananda’s political satire about Nikhil (Taraash Mehrotra), a young, gay Indian researching cancer in Britain who becomes desperate to earn indefinite leave to remain and prove himself the “good” immigrant.

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