by Isaac Ouro-Gnao | Jun 28, 2022 | Off/Stage Reviews
The world premiere of Roy Williams’ The Fellowship is a poignant, tender, and comedic telling of issues plaguing two sisters navigating family life beyond the Windrush scandal. Libby Watson’s chic design sets a modern, cosy apartment with towering, winding stairs as...
by Manisha Balkissoon | Jun 16, 2022 | Off/Stage Reviews
Amidst the chaos of war, community upheaval and change in 1970s Pittsburgh, the beauty of August Wilson’s fiercely enduring ‘Jitney’ lies in the richness of its characters and contexts, uncovering surprising familiarity within seemingly different people, places and...
by Manisha Balkissoon | Jun 10, 2022 | Off/Stage Reviews
Staying true to its title, Singaporean playwright, Joel Tan’s ‘No Particular Order’ presents fragmentary vignettes of a society set within different time periods, connected by the themes of destructive legacies of power, self-sabotage and hierarchical disorder....
by Thaj Rathore | Jun 5, 2022 | Opinions, Views & Contexts
2022 marks Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee – an astonishing 70 years on the throne. No other monarch of the United Kingdom has passed this milestone, either in the past, or likely to in the foreseeable future, and is the second longest-serving monarch in the...
by Isaac Ouro-Gnao | Jun 1, 2022 | Off/Stage Reviews
Actor Tobi King Bakare’s writing debut tells a raw, honest, one-man story of masculine silence and what it takes to express the emotional struggles plaguing black men. Before I Go draws on Bakare’s charm and multiskilled talent to navigate a profound story about a...
