Capable Child

  Floella Benjamin describes Coming to England as a story of hope and resilience. That's exactly the inspiring message that we took away from this show. Both of my girls have enjoyed Floella's book 'Coming to England' so we went into the show knowing the story well. The show was true to the book and enhanced every detail with a mixture of song, dancing and acting. The bright, beautiful Trinidadian culture was celebrated but the play also sensitively tackled the reasons why the Windrush generation took the long journey to move to the UK. The show demonstrated the reality of the sacrifices made. We found it particularly sad and hard-hitting when the oldest children remained in Trinidad and were treated badly by 'auntie' and 'uncle'. We were as delighted as the characters when the letter arrived calling the children to England. England wasn't the utopia that the children or parents imagined and on arrival the weather and houses were a shock. 'Coming