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Princess and the Hustler begins with a family divided. Wendell has been absent for years, and Mavis has had to do the work of two parents, while Wendell Junior has grown up too soon. We see that, despite the love in the James family before Wendell's return, they are not holding together well. The play opens with Princess hiding away from the world in a cupboard, a scene soon followed by a row about Wendell Junior trying to go out that threatens to turn violent. The return of Wendell Senior with Lorna causes further difficulties. And yet, in spite of these problems, the family shows a strong bond, recognising what they owe to each other.  "It takes more than a word to make a father", Wendell Junior says, and we see that eventually Wendell tries to do something to earn his place as father. Family is a source of joy and obligation in the play. You have to do your part to belong, the play suggests. But not everyone feels the same sense of obligation to others.  Margot, the James' White neighbour, refers to the Jameses as family, but fails to support the Bristol bus boycott. We see, too, that she does not get on with her own family. The two facts together suggest that family ties are only meaningful if you act as if they were. The play also uses family as a way of thinking about the past, as we inherit both our genes and our stories from our family. The struggles of the family in the past are a way of thinking about the struggles of Black people as a whole. Not everyone recognises their duties to love one another, but the James family offers an example of a family going through hard times and coming out stronger.

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Throughout the play, members of the James family, who are Black, encounter racism. It starts with their neighbour Margot's tone-deaf remarks and lack of sympathy for the plight of Black people in Britain and builds to the violence of a racist street gang. We also see the internalised racism of White beauty standards and how race affects life in countless ways. At the same time, Odima shows how the resistance to racism helps make the family who they are. The play is set during the Bristol Bus boycott. This was a campaign in 1963, when Black and Asian people and some White supporters protested against a policy of not hiring Black or Asian drivers in Bristol. This policy was only one of many discriminatory policies people of colour faced in Britain, including discrimination in housing, employment, and worse treatment by the Police. Beginning after World War Two, a wave of migration from the Caribbean and other parts of the empire (a wave sometimes called the Windrush generation), had brought large numbers of Black people to Britain. In the play, Wendell and Mavis are among them. By setting her very recent play during this particular phase of Black British history, Odimba asks us to reflect on what has changed and what hasn't. In the wake of the Windrush scandal, which surfaced in 2017,  revealing that Black people who had been in Britain for more than 50 years were being wrongly deported, Odimba's play shows us the deep roots of Britain's present and the persistence of racism, as well as the strength families have always shown in facing it.

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One of the key themes of Princess and the Hustler is self-Love. This is most obviously dramatised in the struggles Princess faces to be accepted at school. She longs to be more like Margot, trying on her dresses. When Lorna, who is mixed-race, comes into the house, Princess expresses envy of her green eyes. Such an internalised racism in standards of beauty manifests in what is called colourism, where lighter skinned Black people are treated differently even within Black communities.  When Lorna is invited to a party with Princess' schoolmates that Princess is not, it is because of her lighter skin. Realising this, Princess's fantasy of being crowned a beauty queen becomes more muted. As she is abused more at school she gives up almost entirely on her "cupboard world" of fantasy. But the play shows how she can overcome this, by struggling with her family, and refusing the standards of her White peers. The play ends with a parade of Black beauty queens, and offers a message of empowerment and self-love.

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While all the members of the family experience racism, what brings them together is the struggle against it. Wendell Junior and Wendell do not agree on much, but they come together to support the bus boycott. Wendell Senior is a fighting man. He served in the army, before failing to find steady work in Britain in peacetime. The sense of collective purpose that the fight against racism gives him helps him to face up to his failures as a father. It brings him together with his son, Wendell, while showing what he cannot personally make up to him. Odimba points out that the struggle for equality connects generations of Black people, and helps to bring them together, like the James family comes together.  Near the end of the play, Mavis tells Princess that "so many princesses before you fight for our right" to freedom. The play honours the struggles of the past and suggests that there is still more work to be done.

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The play starts and ends with Princess' fantasy of being crowned a beauty queen. Because of Princess' acceptance of a Eurocentric standard of beauty, we see that she feels cut off from her own dreams. But the play suggests that these dreams are worth having, and that sometimes, the world has to change to accommodate them. The staging of her fantasy gets more realistic, her crown becomes real. Because her family supports her dreams, they are closer to coming true.It is not just Princess who has big goals. Wendell Junior dreams of being a photographer, and the photographs he takes are of his family, showing again that dreams are not something you have alone. You need other people to bring them alive for you. This is perhaps most true for Mavis. When Wendell proposes to  Mavis again, she says,  "Mi 'ave dreams too Wendell. Small quiet dreams but dem still alive in 'ere..." Her dreams are of holding the family together. It's a real-world goal, and it can happen.  

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