Arinzé Kene has written and performs Misty a play that it is difficult to categorise but is all the more stimulating for this. It feels like poetry as he describes the urban landscape of London with its creeping gentrification for which Kene uses the metaphor of an invasion of viruses into the human body.
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I loved the singing voices of the main women, Christine Allado, Alexia Khadime as Miriam and Tanisha Spring as Queen Nefertari and the tunes would be better appreciated with a better book and less razzmatazz. The hit song "When You Believe" is sung superbly by Alexia Khadime and Christine Allado. The stage briefly lights up with the burning bush scene, the flames are dancers, the waters of the Nile turn red with blood and the Red Sea parts to let the Hebrews through. The number of plagues are very reduced but Hotep is hit badly with red, oozing pustulent boils. Let's move on!