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“I was the world’s dancing fool!”
Following a disastrous audition, young and graceless dancer Maya Angelou finds herself on stage in roaring San Francisco.
In this dramatisation of Dr. Angelou’s iconic debut memoir, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya is played by Pippa Bennett-Warner and the narrator (older Maya) by Adjoa Andoh.
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