To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
Black Superhero
Royal Court Theatre
Superheroes are ubiquitous nowadays – it’s hard to go to the cinema without tripping over one. But Danny Lee Wynter’s debut play, Black Superhero, uses them as a thoughtful frame to interrogate questions around black masculinity and our desire to be rescued.
David (Danny Lee Wynter) is an actor. His friends Raheem (Eloka Ivo) and King (Dyllon Burnside) are also actors, but they’ve achieved a different level of success to David, who’s living with his sister, Syd (Rochenda Sandall), following a mental health crisis.
LEO BOIX, ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review Night Stage, Two Women, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, and Fuze
PETER MASON applauds a stage version of Le Carre’s novel that questions what ordinary people have to gain from high-level governmental spying
GORDON PARSONS is blown away by a superb production of Rostand’s comedy of verbal panache and swordmanship
ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review The Ceremony, Eddington, The Life of Chuck, and The Thursday Murder Club


