Death of England: Closing Time 2024

Opened: August 22, 2024
Closing: September 28, 2024

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Soho Place

2 Soho Place London

There are two sides to every story.

Grieving the loss of the family shop with their dreams destroyed, Denise

and daughter-in-law Carly and left to pick up the pieces of their relatives’

mistakes.

Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Erin Doherty play Denise and Carly in this

thought-provoking drama that exp

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Paapa Essiedu

Clint Dyer

Erin Doherty

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Review: DEATH OF ENGLAND: CLOSING TIME, @sohoplace

8 / 10

It only premiered last October, but Death of England: Closing Time, the final chapter in Roy Williams and Clint Dyer’s state of the nation triptych, not only retains its spine-frosting freshness, but feels more dangerous than ever. Not just because it dives headfirst into the socio-political quagmire of race and identity in 21st Century Britain when the very same dynamics disentangled on stage fuelled violent riots on streets across the country. But because it dares to argue that love shines through storm clouds of hatred.

Death of England: Closing Time, Soho Place theatre review — warp-speed conclusion to trilogy on race in the UK

6 / 10

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