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Samuel Takes a Break… In Male Dungeon No. 5 after a Long but Generally Successful Day of Tours review

“Fode Simbo and Bola Akeju have comic chemistry”
Fode Simbo and Bola Akeju in Samuel Takes a Break… In Male Dungeon No. 5 after a Long but Generally Successful Day of Tours at the Yard Theatre, London. Photo: Marc Brenner
Fode Simbo and Bola Akeju in Samuel Takes a Break… In Male Dungeon No. 5 after a Long but Generally Successful Day of Tours at the Yard Theatre, London. Photo: Marc Brenner
Rhianna Ilube’s new play is a sharply funny look at the reverberation of colonialism into the present day

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