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“Equally joyful and painful”

ReviewsNov 11, 2021by Anya RyanYard Theatre, London

Razak Osman and Will Atiomo in Samskara by Lanre Malaolu. Photo: Helen Murray

Lanre Malaolu’s dance-theatre piece for London’s Yard Theatre is a moving untangling of the 21st-century, Black-British experience

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