Review

Ear for Eye by debbie tucker green

An excellent text to explore the harsh reality of the racism that is still faced by so many people on a daily basis. Published by Nick Hern Books
 ear for eye
ear for eye

Ear for eye is divided into three parts and an epilogue. Part one has fifteen characters and is made up of a sequence of duologues and monologues featuring Black British people and African Americans navigating different versions of oppression. Part two has two characters; a white academic in his fifties and an African American student in her twenties who argue about the reasons for a mass shooting. Part three, which is filmed, has fifty five speaking parts and details US segregation and British Jamaican slavery rules, all spoken by white actors. In the epilogue some characters from earlier return to incite a reaction.

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