Choir Boy, written by Tarell Alvin McCraney – who also penned the play on whichBarry Jenkins’ film Moonlight was based and co-wrote the script with Jenkins – has had the kind of stage life most playwrights could only dream about. A meditation on Black queerness, experience and spirit, Choir Boy premiered in London’s West End, was nurtured in the US and landed among the bright lights of Broadway’s 2019 season.
Now National Theatre of Parramatta, the performing arts company as ambitious and necessary as its name, has secured this international hit and brought it to Riverside Theatres in time for Sydney WorldPride. An Australian tour will follow, taking to new audiences this play-with-music about identity, difference, history and all the ways we are shaped into becoming ourselves.
