Strange Fruit London Reviews and Tickets
Critic Reviews (6)
It is an extraordinary debut play, with passages of transcendently brilliant writing and significant flaws, among them a hefty three-hours-plus running time and slabs of bludgeoning polemic.'
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Its most striking quality, in a tightly focused and brilliantly acted production, is its uncompromising honesty...The play is passionate and heartfelt, but it is also long...'
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...a work of real substance and even if, at three hours length, the drama is slow-burning, it eventually catches fire...Nancy Medina’s production is full of heat and fury and signally well acted.'
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Nancy Medina’s assured revival...boasts exciting performances from Jonathan Ajayi and Tok Stephen as Errol and Alvin. But the play, with a three-hour running time and some taxing monologues, feels in need of a trim.'
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As family dramas go, Caryl Phillips’s ‘Strange Fruit’ is at the epic end of the scale... it remains a story that reverberates, echoes and expands far outside the theatre walls.'
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Nancy Medina’s...direction captures all of the different conflicts in Phillips’ play and weaves them together in a way that is potent and affecting.'
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