How Lenny Henry takes on the Windrush scandal with a shocking and funny one-man ... trends now
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August In England
(Bush Theatre, London)
Verdict: Go Henry!
There's an old adage in storytelling that you should make ’em laugh, make ’em cry and make ’em wait.
That’s exactly what Lenny Henry does in his one-man show about the national disgrace that was the Windrush scandal.
I did wonder if he was a bit behind the curve on the Government’s forced expatriation policy. But I didn’t wonder for long.
His greatest achievement here is to put a human face on the statistics of British nationals threatened with deportation.
That face is fictional Jamaican immigrant August, who comes to the UK on his mother’s passport in 1962. He and Mum get off to a bad start . . . discovering Dad in a Peckham bedsit with an all-too-obliging redhead.
There is plenty of prime Lenny Henry comedy: warm impersonations, great gags and self-effacing
