Seeing the play itself, it appears that, while the objections to a wider lack of roles for East Asian actors are certainly valid, and the thought of white actors further reducing those meagre casting availabilities equally so, targeting this production for those reasons feels misplaced.
Category: Plays
Raising Martha, Park Theatre ★★★★
David Spicer’s new play is a thrilling addition to the farce canon
Gaslight, Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury ★★★★
Gaslight, @TheWaterside1 and touring ★★★★ “It is Tointon who throughout makes this production so watchable”
The Tempest, Southwark Playhouse ★★½
A shortened production reduces, rather than improves, Shakespeare’s magical play
Glockenspiel, Tristan Bates Theatre, London ★★
Veterans’ post-traumatic stress disorder is inadequately covered
Learned Friends, Central Criminal Court, London
A courtroom drama, played out in the world’s most famous court
Cathy, Pleasance Theatre, London ★★★★
Cardboard Citizens updates Cathy Come Home to 2016
Lunch & The Bow of Ulysses, Trafalgar Studios 2, London ★★★★
Nigel Harman directs two related Steven Berkoff one-act plays
Conviction, Above the Arts, London ★★★½
Conviction in one’s own beliefs leads to drastically different lives in Rebecca Morgan’s 1950s drama
Wanting the Moon, Bread and Roses Theatre, London ★
An interesting, under-recognised woman is not served well by this monologue
Ruby, Bread and Roses Theatre, London ★★½
Taking its name from the rhyming slang for curry, this mild dish lacks spice
Marilyn and Sinatra, Jermyn Street Theatre, London ★
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