REVIEW: Jitney, Old Vic (2022)
Jitney: a ride to the American Dream "You don’t always have the kind of life that you dream about. "Fielding Sule Rimi as Turnbo and Wil Johnson as Becker (Photo:…
Lenny Henry as Troy and Tanya Moodie as Rose
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REVIEW: Fences, Duchess Theatre (2013)
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.
Delroy Lindo as Bynum Walker and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Herald Loomis - Photo:
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REVIEW: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Young Vic (2010)
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.