Anne Odeke's maths teacher said she ought to be fitted with a volume control. ‘I was the loud one, the funny one, in the class,’ she tells me. It's true, she does like to talk and even though she hasn't done many interviews, it's quite hard to get a word in edgeways.
Odeke is an actor, writer and drama teacher whose latest play, A Place For Me? opening at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, in October, then touring, looks at the arrival of Jamaican immigrants in Essex in the 1940s and 50s – the so-called Windrush generation – through the eyes of a child.
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