Choir Boy
From: Tuesday, 4th September 2012
To: Saturday, 6 October 2012
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Synopsis
When you singing them songs... he say, ?I can see where we going and where we come from.' Determined to make his mark like those before him Pharus is hell bent on being the best choir leader in the school's 50 year history. But in a world built on rites and rituals, how will he conform to expectations and gain the respect he desperately needs? Tarell Alvin McCraney's piercing new play set in an all boys, all black, American prep school scores a gospel refrain of the politics of minority and masculinity.
Our Review:
11 September 2012
The most astonishing thing about Tarell Alvin McCraney's new play Choir Boy - presented by the Royal Court in a co-production with the Manhattan Theatre Club, where it's due next year - is the casting.
The students at an all-boys, all-black American prep school are played by five remarkable unknowns who sing like the Platters and act like hardened veterans. Director Dominic Cooke has struck more gold for England at the end of our Olympic summer.
Their choir leader, Dominic Smith (whose one credit is the UK and European tour of Thriller), even resembles a strange mixture of Dionne Warwick and Michelle Obama in a maroon blazer, an accident he turns to stunning advantage as Pharus Young, staving off rivals and discovering his sexuality in the school's fiftieth anniversary year.
Smith pouts and flaps his wrists, glares and simpers, but als...
Cast
Khali Best (AJ)
David Burke (Mr Pendleton)
Aron Julius (David)
Eric Kofi Abrefa (Bobby)
Kwayedza Kureya (Junior)
Gary McDonald (Headmaster)
Dominic Smith (Pharus)
Creative
Tarell Alvin McCraney (Author)
Coutts (Corporate Sponsor)
Royal Court Theatre (Producer)
Manhattan Theatre Club (Producer)
Dominic Cooke (Director)
Ultz (Design)
Charles Balfour (Lighting)
Carolyn Downing (Sound)
Colin Vassell (Musical Director)
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