There is Amma’s teenage daughter, Yazz, in her second year at UEA, determined to break into journalism and force her elders to check their privilege her gay father, Roland, Amma’s sperm donor and the University of London’s first professor of modern life Dominique, Amma’s sex-goddess best friend, a surprise arrival from Los Angeles Amma’s unglamorous friend Shirley, a.k.a. Everyone is at the National to see the play and to be seen at the afterparty. The before and after of the first performance bookend Bernardine Evaristo’s latest novel, bringing her characters’ storylines together in one place. The Last Amazon of Dahomey has sold out before the run begins it features 18th-century lesbian West African warriors, ‘thunderous armies of charging Amazons brandishing muskets and machetes/hollering and swelling towards the audience’. The radical writer and director Amma Bonsu, snubbed for decades by the cultural establishment for her uncompromising work ( FGM: The Musical Cunning Stunts), is about to astonish audiences with a new play. I t’s opening night at the National Theatre.
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