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Theatre

Angry diatribes and amusing pranks: Donmar Warehouse's Marys Seacole reviewed

7 May 2022

9:00 AM

7 May 2022

9:00 AM

Marys Seacole

Donmar Warehouse, until 4 June

Pretty Woman: The Musical

Savoy Theatre, until 2 October

The title of the Donmar’s new effort, Marys Seacole, appears to be a misprint and that makes the reader look twice. Good marketing. The show is a blend of Spike Milligan-esque sketches and indignant speeches about race but it starts as a straightforward historical narrative. Mary Seacole enters in Victorian garb and introduces herself as a woman of half-Scots and half-Caribbean heritage who believes that ethnic differences create hierarchies of competence.

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