Statement of Regret
Cottesloe, National Theatre, London from 7th November 2007 to 10th January
2008
Kwaku Mackenzie, founder of a Black policy think tank,
hits the bottle after his father’s death. As media interest in the
once dynamic Institute fades, his team grows fractious and then, disastrously,
he favours a young Oxford scholar over his own devastated son. When, in a
vain attempt to regain influence, he publicly champions division within the
Black community, the consequences are shattering.
Are you afraid that a little white man lurks beneath that
deep chocolate skin? Yes, that’s your story isn’t it? You’re
really a little coconut parading as radical black intellectual.
Kwame Kwei-Armah’s third play for the National takes
a punchy, provocative look at the Black British experience and the need,
or not, for solidarity.
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