Cecilia Noble Archives

Image from Is God Is (photo: Tristram Kenton)

REVIEW: Is God Is, Royal Court (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:19 September 2021
Post category:Black History London but not West End Play Review
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Various claims are made for Is God Is relating it to tragedy ancient and modern and the Spaghetti Western. The earliest is Greek tragedy, dealing with issues of a finely balanced question of right and wrong, often with divine intervention.

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.