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Toyin Omari-Kinch as Stumpie, Natalie Simpson as Jackie and Nickcolia King-N'da as Shakie (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: The Death of a Black Man, Hampstead Theatre (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:5 June 2021
Post category:Black History Off West End Play Review
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Its very title would have conjured up then, as it does now, the unnecessary death of a man in custody or at the hands of the police. Although in the play there is the death of Shakie (Nickcolia King-N'da)'s father, a jazz musician in Manchester, the title The Death of a Black Man may be a metaphor.

NEWS: Alfred Fagon’s Death of a Black Man to open at Hampstead 28th May

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:29 April 2021
Post category:Off West End Play
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Death of a Black Man written in the 1970s by Black British playwright Arthur Fagon is revived at Hampstead Theatre Director Dawn Walton in her first collaboration for Hampstead Theatre…

Shannon Hayes as Princess Sarah and Donna Berlin as Aggie - Photo: Ellie Kurttz

REVIEW: The Gift, Theatre Royal Stratford East (2020)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:30 January 2020
Post category:Black History Off West End Play Review
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Janice Okoh's play The Gift for Eclipse, a Black Theatre company which fosters and supports black artists in the North of England, is a comedy of manners and a satire on race relations over two centuries. Based on Queen Victoria's black goddaughter Sarah Bonetta Davies who was gifted to the queen after she recognised the 5 year old's intelligence, the play is constructed around three tea parties.