Rory Keenan

Trouble in Mind, National’s Dorfman Theatre, review: a timely – yet uneven – satire of racism in theatre

• In the turbulent aftermath of the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests that subsequently erupted, multiple sectors of society have had to take a long hard look at themselves. Theatre has not been exempt from this process, liberal and inclusive though it has always liked to pride itself on being. It has thrown itself into a vigorous interrogation of issues of representation and “gatekeeping”, of who gets to tell what stories to what audiences in which sort of venues. All of