Black Love (London) London Reviews and Tickets

65%

(1 Rating)

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Members say

Absorbing, Relevant, Clever

About the Show

Chinonyerem Odimba & Max Ringham's critically acclaimed musical following siblings' journey back to one another.

Siblings, Aurora and Orion, are more than just family. In their small London flat, memories of their parents’ Black love surrounds them. When that love is threatened, they must find understanding and connection before they can begin to find a way back to one another.

Chinonyerem Odimba & Katie Posner direct.

Show-Score Member Reviews (1)

Relevant, Clever, Absorbing

See it if you want to support up and coming talent exploration Black experiences in Britain.

Don't see it if you don't like "vulgar" language as every word for female genitalia is explored

Critic Reviews (4)

A lush, wraparound, jazz-funk keyboard soundtrack provides the spine for this chamber musical, a jubilant celebration of black affection and identity tempered by white interference. It’s a likeable, often joyful but ultimately lopsided show, part family story and part polemic.
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I think part of the problem is that ‘Black Love’ hasn’t scaled up from Paines Plough’s ultra bare-bones touring Roundabout theatre - another draft or two to let it breathe might have been handy...
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Some of my happiest theatrical memories are associated with the Kiln — or the Tricycle, as I still tend to think of it — so I find myself wondering how such a clumsy piece could have been chosen to launch the venue’s new season.
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Despite the flaws, and the overriding impression of this still being a work-in-progress, Black Love is a refreshingly original piece of theatre, provocative but suffused with affection.
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