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Performing Arts: Theatre Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Nowhere to Belong

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown started causing a ruckus at an early age — something that's made quite clear in her one-woman show Nowhere to Belong. Now a veteran columnist for the Independent, Alibhai-Brown grew up in Idi Amin's Uganda. In his paranoia, Amin blamed the country's woes on its Asian population and set racial tensions high; it was therefore unsurprising that, when a teenage Alibhai-Brown was cast as Juliet to her African classmate's Romeo, it caused a stink. However, it also sowed the seeds for a lifelong love for Shakespeare, which Alibhai-Brown explores in typically impassioned form tonight.

– Helen Holtom

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