Fresh from playing the Emcee in Cabaret the actor, singer and icon of red-carpet fabulousness Billy Porter makes an assured UK directing debut with this two-hander. Harrison David Rivers’s play stars Omari ‘It’s a Sin’ Douglas and Alexander ‘Emmerdale’ Lincoln as an interracial American gay couple navigating the furious swell of the Black Lives Matter movement and the first hints of a Trumpian backlash.
It’s as much about the complicated ebb and flow of the relationship as it is about the couple’s differing attitudes to activism. The twist being that Douglas’s Jesse, who is black, doesn’t want to get involved, while Lincoln’s Neil, who is white, is forever leaping into the fray.
