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Racists will love it: National Theatre's Death of England – Delroy reviewed

14 November 2020

9:00 AM

14 November 2020

9:00 AM

Death of England: Delroy

Olivier Theatre

Debate: Baldwin versus Buckley

BRIC Brooklyn, New York, via YouTube

Death of England: Delroy is a companion piece to Death of England, which ran in February at the NT and examined the white working classes. Here the focus is on a successful black Briton, Delroy, who votes Tory and feels at home in multicultural society. The charismatic Michael Balogun plays him as a complex, shrewd and humane figure.

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