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“The Piano Lesson” continues Deadwyler’s dramatic gallery of single mothers who are determinedly protective of their children.

The cast enacted its pre-performance rituals: a circle of determinedly clenched fists, neck rubs dispensed and received, plenty of fussing with one another’s hair.

He’s in his mid-30s but comes across as determinedly ageless; his air is deadpan, confused, often frustrated.

But critics call it the most determinedly authoritarian effort yet to snuff out pro-Western sentiment that has come to prevail in the three decades of independence.

At a time when pop music was determinedly apolitical, she wrote Standing In The Way Of Control in response to the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would have outlawed same-sex marriage in the US.