By: Lauren Codling
White Teeth Kiln Theatre, Kilburn Director: Indhu Rubasingham Starring: Ayesha Antoine, Michele Austin, Amanda Wilkin, Tony Jayawardena and Richard Lumsden By Lauren Codling WHEN adapting Zadie Smith’s hugely successful novel White Teeth into a full-length theatrical piece, there must have been pressure on the cast and crew to capture the warmth and heart of the original perfectly. Focusing on the lives of two wartime friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, and their families in Kilburn, north London, the iconic British novel was Smith’s breakthrough work and widely acclaimed by critics and readers alike. Smith, a fresh Cambridge graduate at the…
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