Theatre Royal Stratford East, London
The second, strikingly physical part of Lanre Malaolu’s trilogy that began with Samskara explores bereavement with lightness as well as anguish
It is hard to define this arresting drama. It is a play that might also be a dance with words or a psychological musical. Whatever it is, movement is key to a show that is remarkable for its emotional punch, gut-wrenching performances and formal invention – even if it is sometimes opaque and leaves loose threads.
Written, choreographed and directed by Lanre Malaolu, it is in the same vein as Ryan Calais Cameron’s For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy, whose first productionwas staged at around the same time that Malaolu created Samskara, also fusing dance with dialogue to explore 21st-century Black masculinity.
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