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Anthony Welsh as Troy and Daniel Kaluuya as Leon - Photo: Chris Nash

REVIEW: Sucker Punch, Royal Court (2010)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published: 19 June 2010
Post category:Black History Off West End Play Review

Roy Williams' plays can be enjoyed at many levels and so it is with his latest and original offering at the Royal Court, Sucker Punch which follows a group of young boxers in a club in a run down area of London in the 1980s. Besides the sports story which culminates in a boxing match being excitingly staged in a real ring, there are observations about race and friendship and about racism and sport.

Delroy Lindo as Bynum Walker and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Herald Loomis - Photo: Simon Annand

REVIEW: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Young Vic (2010)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published: 4 June 2010
Post category:Black History Off West End Play Review
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The performances are all good but Delroy Lindo's inspirational, sympathetic old visionary and healer and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith's haunted Herald Loomis stand out as mesmerising. David Lan's intelligent production will make you think about the damage done by those years' of uprooting and slavery to the psyche of the African American.

Pippa Bennett-Warner as Sophie and Kehinde Fadipe as Josephine (Photo: Tristram Kenton)

REVIEW: Ruined, Almeida Theatre (2010)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published: 28 April 2010
Post category:Black History Off West End Play Review
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Lynn Nottage's play Ruined about the Congolese women who are caught up in the warfare is a not to be missed theatrical experience. It is both disturbing and violent as we learn about their existence. The word harrowing is overused but Lynn Nottage's play describes the inhumanity towards the families and bystanders in a war zone.