Productions

Black Love

by Chinonyerem Odimba, with music by Ben and Max Ringham

Introducing Roundabout’s first ever musical.

Love freely. Love freedom. Love.

Meet Aurora and Orion: Sister and Brother. Constellations in time. More than blood. More than just fam.

They look after each other in their small London flat, filled with the memories of their parents’ Black Love.

When that love is threatened, they have to find their way back to each other and to what it means to love whilst Black. Using real-life stories, imagined worlds and new songs inspired by an R&B heritage, they begin a  journey to confronting their own worst fears.

BLACK LOVE is an explosion of form-busting storytelling, an ode to Black music, and those real stories we rarely hear.

Roundabout 2021: A Paines Plough and Belgrade Theatre Coventry production, in Association with tiata fahodzi.

Part of Coventry City of Culture 2021

Age guidance: 14+

Content warning: strong language, scenes of a sexual nature.

Trigger warning: references to and themes around racism, death of a parent.

This performance contains flashing lights

Capacity: 75%

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Where we're going...

Belgrade Theatre

Coventry

28 Jul – 8 Aug 2021

Northern Stage

Newcastle

12 – 15 Aug 2021

Slade Gardens

Brixton

19 – 29 Aug 2021

The Lowry

Salford

9 – 12 Sep 2021

Creative Civic Change Newington

Ramsgate

16 – 19 Sep 2021

Brewhouse

Burton-Upon-Trent

23 – 26 Sep 2021

Cast

Doncaster

1 – 3 Oct 2021

Lincoln Performing Arts Centre

Lincoln

7 – 11 Oct 2021

Lighthouse Poole

Bournemouth and Poole

14 – 17 Oct 2021

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Cast

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