Who runs this house? Danai Gurira’s play is a brilliant exploration of the clashes between cultural traditions and colonial influences.
J N Benjamin
Articles by J N Benjamin
3 December 2018
Features
Misty’s Understudy Run
By J N Benjamin
“The change is small but the difference is mighty” – J N Benjamin writes on how Misty was transformed in the hands of Arinzé Kene’s female understudy, Kibong Tanji.
24 September 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Prisoner at National Theatre
Until 4th October
By J N Benjamin
Excruciating silences: Peter Brook’s drama is an exercise in painfully slow abstraction.
21 September 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Fishermen at Arcola Theatre
17 - 22 September 2018
By J N Benjamin
The beauty of brotherhood: J N Benjamin reviews the stage adaptation of Chigozie Obioma‘s novel.
25 June 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Shebeen at Stratford East
20 June - 7 July 2018
By J N Benjamin
Ebullient vitality and energy: J.N. Benjamin reviews Mufaro Makubika’s Nottingham-set play.
18 June 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: An Octoroon at National Theatre
7 June - 18 July 2018
By J N Benjamin
Defiance is at the heart of its genius: J.N. Benjamin reviews the National Theatre transfer of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s play.
18 May 2018
Reviews • London Theatre • Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Red at Wyndham’s Theatre
May 4 - May 28
By J N Benjamin
Apollo and Dionysus: Alfred Molina is exceptional as Mark Rothko in the London return of John Logan’s two-hander.