Stephen S. Thompson’s Sitting in Limbo (8 June) is a dramatised account of the events surrounding the scandal that unfolded in 2018 in which people of Caribbean parentage, many of whom had been born in Britain, were wrongly detained, without legal rights, and threatened with deportation or, in some cases, actually deported from the country that they had lived and worked in for years.

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Stephen S. Thompson’s Sitting in Limbo (8 June) is a dramatised account of the events surrounding the scandal that unfolded in 2018 in which people of Caribbean parentage, many of whom had been born in Britain, were wrongly detained, without legal rights, and threatened with deportation or, in some cases, actually deported from the country that they had lived and worked in for years. It was rightfully a cause of national shame.

Thompson’s feature-length drama runs for an hour-and-a-half and centres on the experiences of one character, Anthony Bryan (Patrick Robinson, pictured), a middle-aged London builder, family man and football fan. Thompson’s writing has an added emotional dimension because Bryan is his brother.

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