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Acute drama interrogates racist assumptions
Cultural appropriation and the ownership of black bodies online are just some of the issues raised in a bracingly provocative new play, says WILL STONE
ANGRY TROLL: Cleo (Leanne Henlon)
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
seven methods of killing kylie jenner
Royal Court, London
PLAYWRIGHT Jasmine Lee-Jones’s hit debut explores many things over 90 minutes, among them the cultural appropriation of the voiceless by the rich and famous, namely the Kardashians and arch-socialite Kylie Jenner.
Much has happened in the world since the play’s original staging in 2019 to merit this rerun, with the ills of institutional racism brought centre stage following last year’s explosion of BLM protests. The issues raised in seven methods ... now seem eerily prescient.
The play’s protagonist Cleo (Leanne Henlon) is the angry face of the anonymous online troll who uses a Twitter account with the handle @incognegro to list seven brutal ways of killing Kylie Jenner under the hashtag #kyliejennerfidead.
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