Blood of My Blood: Challenging debut play about the legacy of slavery

“A plantation Airbnb?” says a character in Joy Nesbitt’s tight, challenging, timezone-hopping debut play about the legacy of slavery, neatly summing up the idea at its core. Which is: how, exactly, do we deal with the past? An excellent cast under the direction of Tatenda Shamiso – winner of the Standard’s 2023 Emerging Talent Award – help us over the script’s occasional infelicities.