At the Royal Court the imaginative way has recently been explored in plays such as Sabrina Mahfouz’s dreamy A History of Water in the Middle East. Now, Jasmine Naziha Jones’s debut play, Baghdaddy, in which she also stars, also gets the magic realist treatment. But how successful is it?
Beginning in 1991, this coming of age story is seen through the eyes of Darlee, an eight-year-old girl whose Dad is Iraqi, living in London. Her mother,…
