YOUR GUIDE TO THIS WEEK IN CULTURE
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Spoken Word Theatre ThisWeek In London
Three To See on 16 Mar: A Raisin In The Sun, BU21, Quiet Violence
By TW Editorial | Published on Wednesday 9 March 2016
The TW-recommended Convergence festival continues today – check out the TW:Guide to the whole event here. Meanwhile, today’s other TW-tipped events are…
A Raisin In The Sun | The Albany | 16-19 Mar (pictured)
A chance to see the late Lorraine Hansberry’s award-winning and ground-breaking 1959 drama depicting the lives of working class people of colour in the just-pre-civil rights era, staged by acclaimed black-led touring company Eclipse. Angry, yet inspirational, and, sadly, still entirely relevant. See this page here for more info and to book.
BU21 | Theatre503 | 15 Mar-9 Apr
And now another show that sounds great, if disturbing, though in a rather different way. This piece by up and coming playwright Stuart Slade (you may remember his 2014 first play ‘Cans’, also staged at Theatre503) explores the fate of six young people following a terror attack in London, and threatens to be terrifying, brutal and heartbreaking, but also inspiring and hilarious. See the venue website here for details.
Quiet Violence | Soho Theatre | 16+18 Mar
This one-woman piece by Sophie Rose was in Edinburgh this summer, and I missed it then, but I don’t want to miss it now, because of all the good things I have heard about it. It’s described as a “spoken word comedy show” and focuses on all the sorts of things we do to make our lives more difficult in small ways. The result is something powerful and anarchic. See the Soho Theatre’s web page here for more info.
