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Lenny Henry as Troy and Tanya Moodie as Rose (Photo: Nobby Clark)

REVIEW: Fences, Duchess Theatre (2013)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:16 June 2013
Post category:Black History Play Review West End
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Director Paulette Randall has honed these real performances for this excellent production. By the end of the play we know each and every one of August Wilson’s characters. Wilson’s language is powerful and poetic. Libby Watson’s set is the spacious Pittsburgh house bought with brother Gabriel’s compensatory payment for his war wound and surrounded by greenery as well as the eponymous fences.

REVIEW: Julius Caesar, Noel Coward Theatre (2012)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:16 August 2012
Post category:Black History Play Review West End
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In a wonderful production for the Royal Shakespeare Company, its new Artistic Director Gregory Doran sets Julius Caesar in Africa using an all black cast of Britain's finest actors. Somehow the rhythm of Shakespearean verse and the clarity of the African pronunciation, along with the political theme of power politics and regime change, work well in the new setting.

Helen McCrory as Libby (left), Julie Walters as Judy (centre), Rory Kinnear as Nick (right) - Photo: Catherine Ashmore

REVIEW: The Last of the Haussmans, Lyttelton Theatre (2012)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:24 June 2012
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Stellar Cast for Stephen Beresford's First Play "My children hate it when I'm sexual." Judy Helen McCrory as Libby (left), Julie Walters as Judy (centre), Rory Kinnear as Nick (right)…