Meetings by Mustapha Matura
The Arcola Theatre presents a revival of this 1991 dark comedy by Mustapha Matura, and gives us another chance to examine the identity issues that arise when globalisation pits tradition against progress in 1980’s Trinidad. Young and at the top of their game, husband and wife entrepreneurs, Hugh (Nicholai La Barrie) and Jean (Inika Leigh Wright), have everything they could possibly want out of life but is
Rolling With Laughter
Natasha Wood enters the stage in her electric wheelchair, (she was born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy), and from the start you know this is not to be a tale of triumph over adversity. Wood shares snapshots of her life growing up in middle England, her family and her ambitions. It is the story of a life made less ordinary due to the condition with which she lives, but one lived with no self-imposed boundaries, at least none that I could discern.
