by Angelo Irving | Oct 30, 2024 | Off/Stage Reviews
Hanif Kureishi’s seminal coming-of-age and state-of-the-nation novel gets its first staging in this extravagant adaptation by Emma Rice. The Buddha of Suburbia grandiloquently bursts onto the stage with a mix of raucous comedy and biting social insight, capturing the...
by Angelo Irving | Oct 5, 2024 | Off/Stage Reviews
Bristol’s bus boycotts and beauty pageants are the unlikely backdrop to Chinonyerem Odimba’s precious story of innocence infected by racism. First performed at Bristol Old Vic in 2019 and recently chosen to be a GCSE English text, Odimba’s story of a Caribbean family...
by Angelo Irving | Oct 3, 2024 | Off/Stage Reviews
Alzheimer’s disease tears at the fraying edges of a family whose fearsome but loving matriarch struggles with the realisation the disease is stealing her memories in this compassionate portrait from Tanika Gupta. Food will always be an irreplaceable mode of...
by Angelo Irving | Aug 29, 2024 | Off/Stage Reviews
The concluding part of Dyer’s and Williams’ ground-breaking trilogy shines a fervent light on the reality of race and the obstacles and fallacies of cultural assimilation, in this forensic examination of identity. Denise (Duncan-Brewster) and Carly (Doherty) are two...
by Angelo Irving | Aug 22, 2024 | Off/Stage Reviews
A romantic drama with light comedic notes, Shifters tenderly explores the seemingly myriad ways two people’s lives can intersect in this well-deserved West End transfer. First staged at the Bush Theatre earlier this year, Shifters is a show that is experienced, not...
by Angelo Irving | Jul 31, 2024 | Off/Stage Reviews
The second part of Roy Williams’ epic triptych presents a simultaneously grim and hopeful depiction of life for the black working class in this triumphant state-of-the-nation series. The birth of your first child should be a day to remember. In the second part...
