National Theatre Live: Les Blancs

National Theatre Live: Les Blancs (2019)

September 1st, 20192h 29min

Drama
60%

Overview

An African country teeters on the edge of civil war. A society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future. Racial tensions boil over. Tshembe, returned home from England for his father’s funeral, finds himself in the eye of the storm.


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