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Lennie James as Walter Lee Younger, Cecilia Noble as Ruth Lee Younger and Kananu Kirimi as Beneath Younger - Photo: Tristram Kenton

REVIEW: A Raisin in the Sun, Young Vic (2001)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:6 June 2001
Post category:Black History Off West End Play Review
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David Lan's atmospheric production is bounded by one room in the apartment block in Chicago. The beginning of the play sees the family lining up to use the communal bathroom and we get a sense of the tension created by cramped quarters and the enforced intimacy with the neighbours.

Bill Nighy as Robert, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Christopher and Andrew Lincoln as Bruce - Photo: Ivan Kyncl

REVIEW: Blue/Orange, Duchess Theatre (2001)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:17 April 2001
Post category:Black History Play Review West End
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Bill Nighy plays Robert Smith, the sardonic consultant psychiatrist who makes the case that all psychometric testing has a cultural bias, an ethnocentricity which contributes to the misdiagnosis of those from other cultures. Bruce (Andrew Lincoln) is in his first year of practice and feels that Christopher may have schizophrenia.

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