Playwright Nana-Kofi Kufuor was working in a pupil referral unit when a teenage boy pulled a knife.
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So much so that it inspired him to write a play that puts a 15-year-old boy and his teacher in a similar situation.Writer Nana-Kofi Kufuor is also working on the BBC's rebooted Waterloo Road "But just in that moment, it weighed heavy on my heart, and it sort of weighed heavy on my heart for a while afterwards."
The writer didn't just want to examine where teachers must draw the line between being protector and policeman. They debate whether one black person can be "more black" than another, because of their upbringing or their connection with their heritage or their sense of their own identity.The playwright is from Stockport, Greater Manchester, where he grew up in a predominantly white area while going to Ghanaian parties with his family."The conclusion I've come to, really, is there's no perfect way to be black. There's no way to be black. It's just you are black.
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