Rodreguez King-Dorset’s drama about racism and the Windrush scandal first took life as a 20-minute play for children, written in just four weeks. It was staged at the National Maritime Museum to mark Windrush Day on 22 June last year, and followed a period of research in the museum’s archives on Windrush-era landing cards and photographs of the islands that this generation left behind for a new life in Britain.
That play has now morphed into a hard-hitting, full-scale production. Written, directed and performed by King-Dorset at Watermans arts centre, Windrush Secret is set in 2018 and features three men: a white far-right party leader, a Black Caribbean diplomat and a white Home Office official. On the same day, they each rouse, rally and mobilise an invisible audience for their political causes.
