Caroline, Or Change at the Playhouse Theatre – 75% Out Of 100
A black perspective told as fantasy by a white author like this, means that choices and balance don’t always sit well.
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Category: Stage Reviews
The Dark @ Ovalhouse Theatre – 75% Out Of 100
Makoha fled Uganda in 1978with his mother in a bid to escape the civil war and reign of Idi Amin.
As the precarious overnight bus journey that ensues, scenes are interspersed, with flashbacks and poetic monologues performed by Michael Balogun (who has an uncanny resemblance to Makoha) and Akiya Henry.
British Black lyric soprano Nadine Benjamin stands out in ENO’s La bohème – 88% Out Of 100
As an avid lover of musical theatre and a general adore of the higher forms of heavenly entertainment found on Mount Olympus (don’t ask), I have always known that opera would find its place pre-carved out in the recesses of my heart, calling to it to say, “here lieth your homestead Muse”.
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Sweet Like Chocolate Boy – 97% Out Of 100
It’s not often a new playwright has such a distinctive voice and style you immediately...
Read Moredebbie tucker green’s ‘ear for eye’ @ The Royal Court – 100% Out of 100
ear for eye is created as a series of different snapshots, looking at varying aspects of the racial injustice timeline we ultimately all run into through the lens of different characters trying to live their lives in modern society
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