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Continental shifts in Vinay Patel's acute drama reflect African-Asian tensions from Mau Mau era and beyond
Beguiling: Anjana Vasan and Shubham Saraf Pic: Helen Murray
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An Adventure
Bush Theatre, London
POLITICAL and romantic, epic and microcosmic, Vinay Patel’s An Adventure both is and isn’t a love story.
Moving from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s and then on to this year, we follow Jyoti and Rasik through the course of their relationship. Traversing India, Kenya and then Britain, theirs is a story of hope and failure.
Their relationship begins in beguiling fashion with Jyoti picking Rasik from among five potential suitors and moving with him to Kenya. But the Mau Mau uprising makes Kenya a difficult place and it tests their loyalties.
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