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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

Black Superhero review – original queer drama with plenty of kapow

Dyllón Burnside and Danny Lee Wynter in Black Superhero at Royal Court theatre, London.
Power play … Dyllón Burnside and Danny Lee Wynter in Black Superhero at Royal Court theatre, London. Photograph: Johan Persson

Actor Danny Lee Wynter’s debut as a playwright concerns a tight-knit group of performers, some of whom are struggling while one has made it big. As they drink, fight, hit on each other and talk about their therapy sessions, it could spiral into navel-gazing self-indulgence, and sometimes does. Yet there is something vigorous about this ambitious play, however messy it may be.

Wynter also plays the central, troubled character, David, a small-time actor who becomes sexually embroiled with King (Dyllón Burnside), the star of this friendship circle who is famous for playing a Marvel-like superhero.

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