Stage review Hip-hop tragedy reveals scope of Boseman's talents

Chadwick Boseman, perhaps best known as T'Challa in Black Panther, was not only an accomplished actor and Marvel superhero before his death in 2020, he was also a writer - and this 2005 play bears all the lost promise of his talents.

- Arifa Akbar

It is a sprawling, music-filled story of a black woman, Azure (Selina Jones), mourning her fiance, Deep (Jayden Elijah), who has been killed by a police officer.Inspired by the death in 2000 of a university student, Prince Jones, it splices the theme of police violence in the US with a Shakespearean plot of jealousy, injustice, revenge and grief. The last of these is explored through a powerful portrait of Azure's eating disorder and the reactions of Deep's f