Sir Lenny Henry is finest identified for his comedy, however he needs the primary play he’s ever written to make us indignant. ‘August in England’ – during which he stars – focuses on the injustices of the Windrush Scandal.
The one-man present, which opens on Friday at London’s Bush Theatre – is about how individuals who’d come from the Commonwealth and lived right here for many years have been denied authorized rights, detained and deported from 2018 below the federal government’s hostile setting insurance policies on unlawful immigration.
Many got here from Caribbean international locations because the ‘Windrush’ technology.