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Theatre review: The Fellowship
A stirring tale of two Caribbean sisters in a world where their origin is a daily call to arms
[Robert Day]
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The Fellowship
Hampstead Theatre
1 July 2022
IT’S great to see Hampstead Theatre stepping out of its comfort zone with this unequivocal, in-depth penetration of a world where cultural origin is a daily call to arms.
The fellowship of the title is the bond between two sisters of Caribbean descent who painstakingly carve out uncharted lives in an England where being “black” not only shapes their lives but continues repeatedly to blitz them with heartbreak and trauma.
It’s also the baton-passing journey of three generations from Windrush, through the Broadwater Farm eruption, to the new, destabilising world of Brexit and Covid where the future is up for grabs, and all are at the mercy of forces greater than themselves.
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