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Fix Up

a new play by Kwame Kwei-Armah

‘I’m forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive. But the future of the Negro in this country is precisely as bright or as dark as the future of the country’
James Baldwin, 1963

It’s Black History month but you wouldn’t know it in Tottenham where Revive PLC plan to turn Kwesi’s All Black African Party hotbed into luxury flats, and it looks like Kiyi’s ‘conscious’ bookstore will soon go the same way. And then a beautiful visitor shows up in their midst and life goes from bad to worse.

Set against the inexorable march of progress in contemporary London, Kwame Kwei-Armah’s second play for the National explores race and roots with verve and wit.

Being around too much white folk. I seen the bluest of blackest men get too much exposure bam, they lose their rhythm. Put on a James Brown tune and they start doing the Charleston to ras!

Fix Up finished on: 23 March 2005

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