Trouble in Mind (National Theatre) London Reviews and Tickets

Item: Trouble in Mind (National Theatre)
Rating: 40
Author: Megan

40%

(1 Review)

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100%

Members say

Slow, Confusing, Disappointing, Great acting

About the Show

Nancy Medina directs in this wry satire about racism in theatre.

Member Reviews (1)

Slow, Great acting, Disappointing, Confusing

See it if You like comedy, and a much smaller, more intimate space. Thought provoking topic that is particularly relevant in todays context.

Don't see it if You dislike unnecessary, melodramatic acting that doesn’t suit or work well with the narrative.

Critic Reviews (5)

Childress’s play was staged off-Broadway in the same year it is set, just as America was tipping into the civil rights movement, and she captured the very live anger of her era, as it was being experienced.
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Childress, drawing on her own experience of what it was like to be a black actress in a largely white industry, is sharp at showing how integrity is nice but rent money is essential.
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Nancy Medina directs the show, designed by Rajha Shakiry, with a bright touch that sometimes emphasizes the humorous satire over some of the terrible tragedy...This revival of an American classic is both relevant and fun.
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Not everyone can afford to have principles. This is an essential revival; that Childress’s work is finally being seen is, at least, one injustice corrected.
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Trouble in Mind is an engaging and stirring piece of activist theatre which wrestles with the structural problems and racial inequalities at the heart of show business.
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