Caribbean’s Premier Comedian, Oliver Samuels celebrates his 65th Birthday with the UK 2014 Tour of ‘Dolly House’ The audience will be treated to his best production yet! His hysterically funny play ‘Dolly House’ The Play Dolly House, is a wonderful mix of Jamaica’s favourite topics; politics, power, intimacy, race, class, mistrust and betrayal, all co-mingled […]
A Bush Theatre Production World première PERSEVERANCE DRIVE by Robin Soans In the heat of the Caribbean sun and to the familiar sound of gospel hymns, the Gillard family prepares for the funeral of their mother Grace. Tensions ignite as opera-loving, chardonnay-quaffing Josh returns after 8 years of excommunication. Widowed Eli wants to sell the […]
Star of the original US Production of the Scottsboro Boys Leads the West End Transfer. Brandon Victor Dixon – the original Haywood Patterson – makes West End debut Initial casting has been announced for the West End transfer of Kander and Ebb’s award-winning and final musical The Scottsboro Boys. Brandon Victor Dixon, who originated the […]
Now in its 3rd year, Talawa Theatre Company’s acclaimed new-writing festival, TALAWA FIRSTS will return between 11 and 27 June. Talawa Studios – the company’s dedicated performance space in Old Street – will become a hub of activity for three weeks, showcasing and developing the best in Black British writing. New plays have been curated […]
Caribbean writer and Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott adapts his epic poem Omeros for performance in the unique Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. The poem spans both time and continents, following the journey of a present-day Odysseus and a beautiful house servant Helen, who incites her own Trojan War. St Lucian born Joseph Marcell will star in […]