By Quentin Letts PUBLISHED: 21:22 EST, 16 July 2013 | UPDATED: 21:22 EST, 16 July 2013 Shouting: Chiwetel Ejiofor is a powerful actor and he does look passably like the real Patrice Lumumba Director Joe Wright reduces to silliness a rather simplistic play about the politics of Congo in its first years after independence from Belgium in 1960. Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as the republic’s first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. Mr Ejiofor is a powerful actor and he does look passably like the real Lumumba. But need he shout so much? Could he not give us a more nuanced idea of the cunning any nascent democrat must possess?
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Hands up: A Season in the Congo by Aimé Césaire stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as Patrice Lumumba at the @placeholder