The Donmar’s last production, Watch on the Rhine, showed a wartime family grappling with an ethical dilemma in the midst of a bleak historical moment and making a heroic collective stand. This drama about a Welsh family and their principled act of courage in the second world war might be seen as its companion-piece.
Set in Cardiff’s multicultural Butetown, otherwise known as Tiger Bay, Diana Nneka Atuona’s play dramatises a racial segregation enforced by white American servicemen, when Black American GIs were prevented from integrating with the white community.
