Overview
- Critics publishing Friday deliver a split verdict on Winsome Pinnock’s new play at the National Theatre’s Dorfman in London.
- The 90‑minute drama centers on two scholars asked to authenticate six 18th‑century ledgers tied to a Jamaican estate that bankrolled the fictional Harford House.
- The production mixes country‑house comedy with ghost‑story touches and farce to probe slavery’s legacy, inherited responsibility, erasure and restitution.
- Reviewers single out Rakie Ayola, Cherrelle Skeete and Sylvestra Le Touzel and admire Jon Bausor’s crumbling‑mansion set, while many cite excessive exposition and tangled, rushed plotting.
- The show runs through May 9 under director Miranda Cromwell and taps into live debates over how Britain’s grand houses confront wealth rooted in slavery.