It’s a few days after the US mid-terms when I meet the American actor Michael Luwoye, and it’s just become clear that the Republican party has scraped a majority.
“Sorry about the House of Representatives!” I trill, presumptuously, as we sit down to talk in an upstairs room at the Young Vic, where Luwoye is in rehearsals for Mandela, a new musical (I’m right though: he’s a Democrat). The man about to take the London stage as one of history’s most iconic freedom fighters sighs.
