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Theatre

A terrific two-hander that belongs at the National: RSC's Kunene and the King reviewed

7 February 2020

10:00 PM

7 February 2020

10:00 PM

The Gift

Theatre Royal Stratford East, until 15 February

Kunene and the King

Ambassadors Theatre, until 28 March

The Gift is three plays in one. It opens in a blindingly white Victorian parlour where a posh lady, Sarah, is teaching her clumsy maid to serve tea correctly. Both characters are black. Sarah’s prosperous husband, also black, arrives home and the scene continues as the gauche skivvy (Donna Berlin, brilliant) makes more and more hilarious blunders.

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