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Forget Me Not review " intensely powerful child-migrant drama by Michael Billington

Bush theatre, LondonAn unremittingly emotional play focuses on a family torn apart by the British empire's practice of shipping UK children abroad to cover labour shortagesTom Holloway's play deals with the scandal of child migration which, for more than 350 years, saw kids shipped out from the UK to various parts of the British empire to cover labour shortages. As an Australian, Holloway naturally focuses on the sca…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:45AM on December 14, 2015

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