The Lonely Londoners: a devastatingly poignant tribute to the Windrush generation

There is an easy mythology about the Windrush Generation: that enterprising folk from the West Indies saved the British economy by filling post-war vacancies in the NHS and London Underground. This adaptation of Sam Selvon’s 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners – and now this, the first stage adaptation of that 1956 classic – offers an eviscerating takedown of that romantic notion by immersing us in the marginalised reality of those who migrated.