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Introducing Roundabout’s first ever musical.

 

Love freely. Love freedom. Love.

 

Meet Aurora and Orion: Sister and Brother. Constellations in time. More than blood. More than just fam.

They look after each other in their small London flat, filled with the memories of their parents’ Black Love.

 

When that love is threatened, they have to find their way back to each other and to what it means to love whilst Black. Using real-life stories, imagined worlds and new songs inspired by an R&B heritage, they begin a journey to confronting their own worst fears.

 

BLACK LOVE is an explosion of form-busting storytelling, an ode to Black music, and those real stories we rarely hear.

credits

Co-Directors Katie Posner & Chinonyerem Odimba

Musical Director Candida Caldicot

Designer Lydia Denno

Lighting and Video Designer Gillian Tan

Sound Designer Kieran Lucas

Movement Director Kloe Dean

Costume Supervisor Rhiannon Hawthorn

venues

Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
28 Jul – 8 Aug 2021

Northern Stage, Newcastle
12 – 15 Aug 2021

Slade Gardens, Brixton
19 – 29 Aug 2021

The Lowry, Salford
9 – 12 Sep 2021

Creative Civic Change Newington, Ramsgate
16 – 19 Sep 2021

Brewhouse, Burton-Upon-Trent
23 – 26 Sep 2021

Cast, Doncaster
1 – 3 Oct 2021

Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, Lincoln
7 – 11 Oct 2021

Lighthouse Poole, Bournemouth and Poole
14 – 17 Oct 2021

photography credits

Marc Brenner