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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

Revealed review – race riots and family fractures in a takeaway with rage on the menu

A play with few soft edges … Revealed.
A play with few soft edges … Revealed. Photograph: Nicola Young Photography

Outside, race riots tear across the neighbourhood after a Black teenager is arrested and ends up in a coma through police violence. Inside, three men are fighting their own father-son battles.

Daniel J Carver’s potent and promising drama takes place in a Jamaican takeaway, where the men wait for the greater disturbance to subside on the street, and it explores what it is to be a Black British man across three generations: Jamaican-born grandfather Sydney (Everal A Walsh), father Malcolm (Carver) and son Luther (Jayden Hanley).

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