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Nick Curtis

Death of England: Michael/Delroy at @sohoplace review – these raging, raw shows are exactly what the West End needs

Inflamed by Brexit and first staged (and cancelled) under Covid, I feared that Roy Williams and Clint Dyer’s exploration of the British white and black working-class experience might have dated in this West End transfer. Absolutely not.

Michael and Delroy, the two male monologues in the linked Death of England trilogy (Closing Time, a female two-hander, joins in repertory later) are full of contemporary rage, swagger and furious feeling.

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