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 Manisha Balkissoon | May 23, 2022 | Off/Stage Reviews
Satinder Chohan’s latest offering presents an all-female cast in this confessional ode to the strength and heritage of South Asian women, juxtaposing and probing their dilemmas, decisions and disappointments with the modern British Asian woman. The Lotus Beauty salon...
by Manisha Balkissoon | May 11, 2022 | Off/Stage Reviews
Shortlisted for Theatre503’s International Playwriting Award in 2020, Safaa Benson-Effiom’s debut masterpiece rewires audience perceptions of marriage and love through an emotionally charged lens of grief and loss. Daniel (Holt) and Sylvia (Kassaraté), an interracial...
by Manisha Balkissoon | Apr 11, 2022 | Off/Stage Reviews
Amidst LA’s frivolity and freedom, a traumatised black sculpture artist and his white ‘sugar daddy’ unearth the sexual power dynamics within their queer, interracial relationship, ending in a magnum opus that has tragic consequences – a masterful metaphor for a...
