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guest is the ground—breaking playwright and artistic director of london's young vic theatre, kwame kwei—armah troubled times, can art be persuasive rather than polarising? kwame kwei—armah, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me. it is a great pleasure to have you. now, you've been in the theatre business as an actor, a writer and a director for the best part of three decades. ijust used that phrase, some would call it a cliche, about the culture wars. does it feel to you that today there is a somewhat toxic culture war? i think you've framed it beautifully. it is toxic, but most importantly, it's disingenuous. in my humble opinion. it's used to kind of create political fear. and ourjob as artists is, i think, fundamentally to take away that fear, to take away the binaries that i think this farce of the culture wars are. you know, i often hear politicians — and i'm not one to diss politicians, but i also often hear politicians use race or class or immigration or use history as a battering ram to get themselves into the hearts of the populist. but those issues you've just outline

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guest is the ground—breaking playwright and artistic director of london's young vic theatre, kwame kwei—armaho hardtalk. thank you so much for having me. it is a great pleasure to have you. now, you've been in the theatre business as an actor, a writer and a director for the best part of three decades. ijust used that phrase, some would call it a cliche,

guest is the ground—breaking playwright and artistic director of london's young vic theatre, kwame kwei—armah