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PATRICK MARMION reviews Dear England at the National Theatre: Southgate's super sub scores a winner (despite Lineker's cheesy gags)
Football's come home again to the National Theatre with James Graham's funny, sunny and crowd-pleasing homage to the newly knighted Gareth Southgate.
Ryan Calais Cameron’s messianic drama, first seen at the Kiln Theatre two years ago, imagines the pioneering black actor (Ivanno Jeremiah) being enticed by the devil – in the shape of NBC studio kingpin Mr Parks (Stanley Townsend) – in the McCarthyite witch-hunting era of 1950s New York. Ryan Calais Cameron’s messianic drama imagines the pioneering black actor (Ivanno Jeremiah, centre) being enticed by the devil – in the shape of NBC studio kingpin Mr Parks (Stanley Townsend, left) – in the McCarthyite witch-hunting era of 1950s New York She looks the part in a spray-on, neon pink pencil skirt, frilled red blouse, big bouncy Barbie waves, rosy cheeks and a paste-on smile, as she reports, her voice cheery if a bit breathless, from the field of the Coalinga wildfire which has just consumed another house, a family, kids, dogs and all.
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