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Lenny Henry as August (Photo: Tristram Kenton)

REVIEW: August in England, The Bush (2023)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:21 May 2023
Post category:Black History London but not West End Play Review
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SCANDAL “Yu have to bend the tree while it’s young; if you wait till it’s old it wi’ jus’ bruk’ off in you hand.” Granny Curtis Lenny Henry as August…

Iranno Jeremiah as Sidney. (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: Retrograde, Kiln (2023)

Post author:Francis Beckett
Post published:28 April 2023
Post category:Black History London but not West End Play Review
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Sidney Poitier in Joe McCarthy’s America “All this time I thought I was finding it hard to get work because I was Black, now I learn it was because someone…

Eleanor Worthington-Cox as Lily and Rachel John as August Boatwright. (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: The Secret Life of Bees, Almeida (2023)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:22 April 2023
Post category:Black History London but not West End Musical Review
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When you look at the creative team for the musical version of The Secret Life of Bees, you cannot fail to be impressed. Lynn Nottage, the playwright of Ruined and Sweat and who has authored MJ the new Michael Jackson musical has written the book.