Under pressure from South Africa, which had just set up apartheid, Britain exiled Seretse from its protectorate.
Set in apartheid South Africa and dripping blood from every page, Riotous Assembly depicted the gruesome massacre of 21 white police officers, following the horrific death of an innocent black man, blown apart by a four-barrelled, 10ft elephant gun.
The 1989 drama, set in apartheid-era South Africa, centers on an argument about the best way to dissent.
This is one of a pair of stories set in apartheid-era South Africa – there's a Town Lovers, too, equally fine and terrible.
"The play is set in Apartheid-era South Africa," says Anthony Biggs of the Jermyn Street Theatre.
He has also been in South Africa filming Master Harold and the Boys, a drama set in the Apartheid era, co-starring Ving Rhames.
Apartheid set South Africa apart, not just among its own people but across a world that condemned as pariahs its white leaders and their racial tunnel vision.
Set in the apartheid era, it is the story of Milla de Wet, an Afrikaner dairy farmer, and Agaat, the child she "rescues" from a family of black laborers, raising her as something between a daughter and a maid.
Its setting is apartheid-style South Africa, a time and place that seems both close and yet distant, a paradox that film makers are now finding irresistible.
And the problem for Attlee's government is that Bechuanaland, a British protectorate, abuts South Africa, which is setting up the gruesome machinery of apartheid.
