Roy Williams’s The Lonely Londoners at the Kiln Theatre: Superb Stage Adaptation Of The Classic Sam Selvon Windrush Novel
Is resilience the most powerful character trait? When you think about the suffering of the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jan 2025 | Adaptation, London, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, United Kingdom
Is resilience the most powerful character trait? When you think about the suffering of the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th Jul 2022 | London, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
I live in Brixton, south London. A few days ago, the borough’s aptly named Windrush Square hosted...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Jun 2022 | Dramaturgy, London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, United Kingdom
In the past, most plays by black-British writers have been about the legacy of the Windrush...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Jun 2021 | Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
Online performance, streamed instead of attended, has given theatre companies an immense amount of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Jun 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
I’ve always been a bit sad that so many contemporary classics are so rarely revived. I have even...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 9th May 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Novelist Andrea Levy’s 2004 masterpiece, Small Island, is a tribute to the Windrush Generation,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Jun 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Winsome Pinnock has for decades been a central figure in the promotion of BAME drama not just as a...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 16th May 2018 | Acting, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
The good news about so-called black drama on British stages is that it has broken out of its...
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