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One year ago, during the London Playwrights’ #WrAP Challenge, I found myself crafting a dark, satirical play called Charming Charlie. At the time, it was my second play (Sanctuary being the first), and it felt like a necessary act of artistic resistance—a way to grapple with the terrifying possibility of Donald Trump returning to power.
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In the months following George Floyd’s murder and subsequent nationwide movement for Black Lives to finally Matter in this nation, there’s been a call to remove Confederate flags and statues, rename stadiums, schools, and sports teams, and pressure to also remove statues of our Founding Fathers because they were slavers. The political right cried out,