A Paines Plough and Belgrade Theatre production in Association with tiata fahodzi
Part of Belgrade Theatre’s Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 programme
BLACK LOVE Book and Lyrics by Chinonyerem Odimba Music by Ben and Max Ringham Directed by Chinonyerem Odimba and Katie Posner
Introducing Roundabout’s first ever musical.
Love freely. Love freedom. Love.
Meet Aurora and Orion: Sister and Brother. Constellations in time. More than blood. More than just fam. They look after each other in their small London flat, filled with the memories of their parents’ Black Love.
When that love is threatened, they have to find their way back to each other and to what it means to love whilst Black. Using real-life stories, imagined worlds and new songs inspired by an R&B heritage, they begin a journey to confronting their own worst fears.
BLACK LOVE is an explosion of form-busting storytelling, an ode to Black music, and those real stories we rarely hear.
28 July – 08 August:
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
12 – 15 August:
Northern Stage, Newcastle
19 – 29 August:
Slade Gardens, Brixton, London*
*new dates*
Friday 27 August, 9pm
Sunday 29 August, 2pm
12 – 15 August:
Northern Stage, Newcastle
19 – 29 August:
Slade Gardens, Brixton, London*
9 – 12 September:
The Lowry, Salford
16 – 19 September:
Creative Civic Change Newington, Ramsgate
30 September – 03 October:
Cast, Doncaster
07 – 11 October:
LPAC, Lincoln
14 – 17 October:
Lighthouse Poole, Bournemouth and Poole
