“I’M AN ANGLOPHILE,” DECLARES George Takei, ahead of his arrival on the British stage in a musical inspired by the astonishing reality of his own childhood. “I’m the son of an Anglophile. I’ve always wanted to bring Allegiance to London. And now we get to do it, so we’re very excited about this.”
A Broadway production in 2015, the show explores the US government’s forcible internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans during the Second World War. In the paranoid aftermath of Japan’s strike on
