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Article: Elmina's Kitchen.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 5, 2005
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Byline: NICHOLAS DE JONGH
No stage play about inner-city black life can have delivered a more disturbing or deadly topical message than Elmina's Kitchen. This is one of the first serious black dramas to try for a life in the West End and to galvanise audiences with its cri de coeur.
In Angus Jackson's powerful production, with the author - eloquent, angry Kwame Kwei-Armah (above, with Dona Croll) himself - in the lead role, Elmina's Kitchen dramatises the familiar thesis that inner-city, black-onblack violence and murder comes naturally to uneducated, unemployed young males: the Yardies and a gangster, gun-toting African-American culture offer seductive ...