Death of England: Michael 2024
Opened: July 15, 2024Closing: September 28, 2024
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A family in mourning. A man in crisis.
After the death of his dad, Michael is powerless and angry. In a state of
heartbreak, he confronts the difficult truths about his father’s legacy and
the country that shaped him. At the funeral, unannounced and
unprepared, Michael decides it is time to speak.
Thomas Coombes stars in this scorching and fearless play which asks
explosive and enduring questions about identity, race and class in Britain.
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Review: DEATH OF ENGLAND: DELROY, @sohoplace
9 / 10
Essiedu really is a force of nature. Totally at ease, working the audience like a stand-up comic, then, with fox-like agility, backstabbing them with guttural force and working up to a symphonic crescendo. For Michael I noted that Roy Williams’s brilliance as a writer lies in the way he delicately coils loving intimacy into the character’s DNA. Not matter how tempestuous the storm clouds of paranoia and hate are, a ray of light can always shine through. Watching Essiedu find that light is breath taking.
Death of England
7 / 10
Back to back, the plays make Dyer and Williams’s analysis of Britain’s complications prick even deeper. The men are both stuck in states of contradiction: the difference between their thoughts and feelings are articulated throughout. Their present merges with their past: with a flash of light the language switches from narration to furious action. The world is so vivid that if there’s a weakness here it’s that I longed for more insight into the side characters – there is the sense that this is a series that could roll on, eternally. Full of rage, love, pride and deep bewilderment, these are stories that are grown authentically on British soil and are desperate for a stage.
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Review Roundup: DEATH OF ENGLAND Opens at @sohoplace
by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 31, 2024
by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 31, 2024
Read the reviews for Death of England: Michael, Death of England: Delroy and Death of England: Closing Time. See what the critics are saying and learn more about the shows.
Review: DEATH OF ENGLAND: MICHAEL, @sohoplace
by Alexander Cohen - July 31, 2024
by Alexander Cohen - July 31, 2024
The guns fire loud and sonorous for the opening salvos of Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s Death of England trilogy. A staggered premiere over four years at The National Theatre from 2020, new kid on the theatreland block @sohoplace (it’s really called that) have collated the trilogy (Michael, Delroy, and Closing Time) in rep in the West End.
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