{"id":66065,"date":"2018-11-07T00:59:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T23:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/07\/white-teeth-review-zadie-smiths-multiculti-melting-pot-boils-over\/"},"modified":"2018-11-07T00:59:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T23:59:17","slug":"white-teeth-review-zadie-smiths-multiculti-melting-pot-boils-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=66065","title":{"rendered":"White Teeth review \u2013 Zadie Smith&#039;s &#039;multiculti&#039; melting pot boils over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiln, LondonStephen Sharkey adapts Smith\u2019s immigrant tale with zest but struggles to contain the novel\u2019s dizzying temporal leaps Adapting Zadie Smith\u2019s phenomenal novel for the stage is like trying to harness a whirlwind. The book leaps back and forth in time between 1945 and 1999 and offers multiple perspectives on what Smith calls the \u201cimmigrant experiment\u201d. Stephen Sharkey\u2019s stage version, with songs by Paul Englishby, captures something of the book\u2019s buoyancy but inevitably feels as if it is trying to squeeze a whole narrative flood into a pint pot.Sharkey adopts a dual framing-device. The story is seen partly through the coma-induced eyes of Rosie Jones, a dentist delving into her mixed-race family\u2019s past. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2018\/nov\/06\/white-teeth-review-zadie-smith-kiln-london\" target=\"_blank\">White Teeth review \u2013 Zadie Smith&#039;s &#039;multiculti&#039; melting pot boils over<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiln, LondonStephen Sharkey adapts Smith\u2019s immigrant tale with zest but struggles to contain the novel\u2019s dizzying temporal leaps Adapting Zadie Smith\u2019s phenomenal novel for the stage is like trying to harness a whirlwind. The book leaps back and forth in time between 1945 and 1999 and offers multiple perspectives on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}