Elmina's Kitchen

Synopsis

Business is business, brother. The Yardies are eating up Hackney and Digger's protection smacks more of threat than promise. How can Deli save his son when temptation looms so large on Murder Mile? A darkly hilarious firecracker of a play. This play contains strong language and scenes of a violent nature. It is only suitable for those who are aged sixteen years old and above.

Our Review:

27 April 2005

Here’s an astonishing and chastening fact: the arrival of Kwame Kwei-Armah’s Elmina's Kitchen in the West End marks the first time ever that a contemporary British-born black writer has ever had a play open there. It may have only arrived at the Garrick with the prior endorsement of an award-winning National Theatre run, but it’s nonetheless greatly to be welcomed that this particular citadel has finally been breached.

The play will soon be joined by the first indigenously created black British musical to open in the West End when The Big Life transfers from Stratford East to Shaftesbury Avenue’s Apollo. The producer behind both is the indefatigable Bill Kenwright, who truly deserves credit and acclaim for daring to intervene and put his money where so many have their mouths. Instead of paying lip service to the notion of our multi-cultural society, he’s actually paying up to genuinely reflect it.

A major step forward has b...

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212.158.229.242) - 10 May 2005:

Any play that create more cultural diversity in West End audiences can obly be a good thing. This is a play that will bring many people to the West End for the first time - and hopefully not the last. Kwame - you done good!...

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