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Alan Hollinghurst wins David Cohen lifetime award for ‘pioneering’ novels

Author says he is ‘overcome with emotion’ after winning £40,000 honour for books including The Line of Beauty and The Swimming-Pool Library

The Guardian - UK

Shifters review: This epic new romcom has West End audiences swooning

With fine performances from Tosin Cole and Heather Agyepong, Benedict Lombe’s will-they-won’t-they love story – which has high-profile backing from Idris Elba, Little Simz and Maya Jama – is another fresh hit originating from the Bush Theatre

The Independent UK

Shifters star Tosin Cole: 'You have to trust your ability. Like they say in basketball – shooters gotta shoot.'

Cole, who has had prominent roles in The Doctor Who and Till, will next be seen in Benedict Lombe’s gorgeous love story at the Duke of York’s Theatre

Evening Standard

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‘We needed this’: UK audiences thirsty for black British love stories, says playwright

As Benedict Lombe’s play Shifters transfers to West End, she is only third black British woman to have play staged there

The Guardian - UK

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Evening Standard

The week in theatre: Shifters; The Human Body; Nachtland – review

Benedict Lombe’s new play about two almost-lovers is alive and unpredictable; Keeley Hawes and Jack Davenport have a glimmering brief encounter; and a Hitler painting causes a family rift in Patrick Marber’s latest production

The Guardian - UK

Shifters review – drama of first love lost has giddy kisses and real heart

Benedict Lombe questions ideas around abuse, grief and the Black body in this meet-again-cute starring Tosin Cole and Heather Agyepong

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Benedict Lombe wins theatre prize for play ‘celebrating Blackness in its fullness’

British Congolese playwright receives Susan Smith Blackburn prize for her debut play, Lava, staged in 2021 at the Bush in London

The Guardian - UK

Kae Tempest’s Paradise among finalists for Susan Smith Blackburn prize

Tempest’s National Theatre play, Amanda Wilkin’s Shedding a Skin and Benedict Lombe’s Lava all shortlisted for major playwriting award

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