Set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927, it explores the fraught relations among the members of the great blues singer's band and her white producer and agent.

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"Basically you own a garden shed, because it's honestly not much bigger, " estate agent James White said.

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The play darkens, naturally, for the Surinam act, but equally naturally it becomes predictable: the chain gangs, the brutal punishments, the odious English slave owners, though Mr Bandele keeps Behn's one good white, the Governor's agent Mr Trefry, to balance Orumba.

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Nothing remarkable there, except that the victim was a retired federal agent who had worked on white-collar fraud cases.

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In April the feds arrested the escrow agent in the deal, Ephraim Frenkel, filing a criminal complaint in federal court in White Plains, N.

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