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Show: BLUE
Society: London (professional shows)
Venue: Seven Dials Playhouse. 1a Tower Street, London
Credits: By June Carryl Presented by No Boundaries Theatrical Plroductioons
Type: Sardines
Author: Paul Johnson
Performance Date: 11/03/2024
Blue
Paul Johnson | 13 Mar 2024 05:41am
The 2000 murder of George Floyd followed a few months later by the 2001 storming of the Capitol building in Washington were enough to get actor / writer June Carryl’s fingers tapping on her keyboard. The result was Blue which spent summer 2023 at the Edinburgh Fringe (Where it won a Fringe First Award).
The play is still sixty minutes long and (not surprisingly) runs through without an interval. The set up is simple: Sully an American cop, is being given the internal investigations works (WHICH MUST BE THE WAY NOW – EVERYWHERE, SURELY). He was / or wasn’t responsible for the death of s guy in a car.
The investigating Sergeant Parker already knows Sully and there is some jovial banter right at the beginning to show this. She is the wife of Sully’s ex-partner. over the space of the play we see both characters’ true colours come out. Sully is a bigot and is a completely institutionalised policeman. Parker is biased toward the black community It’s very difficult to argue with her because the Police can be very power-hungry. Mind you Sully was at the trump-inspired storming of the Capitol Building in Washington
The hour is finished with Parker saying that hates everything that Sully leaves her alone in th interview room she then proceeds to read out s long list of names – presumably black men who have died whilst in Police custody.
I thought that the crying was just great acting but when she reappeared (June Carryl) was still in bits and had to rely on her opposite number to hold her up for the well-deserved bows..
I really doesn’t matter where you sit on the fence on the subject of ‘Black Livres Matter’. George Floyd did murder a policeman in the past.
Acting-wise, both performances for excellent and very naturalistic. Th Seven Dials Playhouse is a blackbox really where the audience are all around you and within touching distance.
I wonder if there any way to a sixth star.