Throughout it all, his anger is palpable, and as he reveals himself piece by piece, we feel it too. The back screen in Dyer’s production is covered with headlines from the Windrush crisis: “Banned from Britain at 81,” reads one. “I lost everything,” declares another. A row of suitcases lines the stage as a constant reminder of their displacement, with dancers Jade Hackett and Razak Osman playing out the early moments of the Windrush generation’s arrival in Britain. Later, Wretch is joined on stage by Cashh, who left Jamaica when he was six and grew up in the UK, but was deported in 2014 when he was 19. His personal tale stings as he moves through the audience to tell it.
Wretch 32 at the National Theatre: Palpable anger in genre-blending show
