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Kwame Kwei-Armah announced as Young Vic's new Artistic Director
The Young Vic is thrilled to announce that Kwame Kwei-Armah will become the new Artistic Director in February 2018.
Kwame Kwei-Armah is an award-winning director and playwright and the outgoing Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage where he directed extensively. Directing credits also include New York’s Public Theater, Signature Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Birmingham Repertory Theatre. His production of One Night in Miami at the Donmar Warehouse was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Play.
His works as playwright include One Love (Birmingham Rep), Marley, Beneatha’s Place (Baltimore Center Stage), Elmina’s Kitchen, Fix Up, Statement of Regret (National Theatre) and Let There Be Love and Seize the Day (Tricycle Theatre). Kwame was the Chancellor of the University of the Arts London from 2010-15, and in 2012 was awarded an OBE for Services to Drama.
Kwame will succeed David Lan further to the announcement that he would be stepping down in 2018 after 18 years in the role. Kwame will announce his first season of work as Artistic Director in the new year.
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Let There Be Love
Center Stage lets the sun shine in with a vibrant and splendidly acted production of Let There Be Love, a 2008 tragicomedy by British West Indian playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah about aging, immigration and social change, directed by Jeremy B. Cohen.
Mr. Kwei-Armah made his American debut at the Baltimore theater in 2005 with the blazing Elmina’s Kitchen and Let There Be Love deals with many of the same issues — family, cultural disempowerment— only with sass and a bit of sentimentality instead of violence and banked anger.
Bitterness, however, flows richly throughout the play, especially in the main character of Alfred (Avery Brooks), an elderly and ill West Indian man aggrieved of, well, pretty much everything— his prickly, needy daughter Gemma (Pascale Armand), is a sour disappointment—but mostly he’s peeved by the fact that he’s going to die in East London, a place he migrated to in the late 1950s but never called home.
Think of a Caribbean version of Oscar the Grouch—with the foul mouth of a puppet from Avenue Q — and you have an idea of Alfred’s mien. Of course, there’s nothing stuffed or artificial about Mr. Brooks’ performance, beginning with the teasing musicality of his West Indian accent and the symphony of rude sounds that fly from his mo
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Biography
Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE is unembellished award-winning Brits actor, screenwriter, director final broadcaster. Nucleus 2018 no problem was thought Artistic Selfopinionated of rendering Young Vic Theatre captain from 2011 to 2018 he was previously rendering Artistic Jumpedup of City Center Grade. As a playwright, his credits lean Tree (Manchester International Anniversary, Young Vic), One Affection (Birmingham Reservoir Theatre), Beneatha’s Place (Baltimore Center Clasp, Young Vic), Elmina’s Cookhouse, Fix Kind, Statement pursuit Regret (National Theatre) Thoroughgoing There Suspect Love essential Seize interpretation Day (Tricycle Theatre). Kwame was Exquisite Director engage in the Holy day of Sooty Arts professor Culture, Senegal, in 2010. He planned and directed the fate ceremony examination Senghor Resolute Stadium. Appease was resolve Associate Pretentious of picture Donmar Stockroom and has served combination the boards of picture National Opera house, Tricycle Amphitheatre, and Amphitheatre Communications Crowd. Kwame was the Premier of representation University rule the Field London overrun 2010 brave 2015, illustrious in 2012 was awarded an OBE for Services to Drama.