Chadwick Boseman's Award Nominated Work

Deep Azure lands at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, marking its UK premiere. Written by the late, great, award-winning Chadwick Boseman. Known best globally for his work as an actor in films such as Black Panther and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Boseman was also accomplished as a playwright, with 2005's Deep Azure nominated for a Jeff Award for its drawing on the rhythms of Hip-Hop, the traditions of spoken word and the influence of Shakespearean verse. This new production is directed by Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu (For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy), making his Globe debut as a director.

The play follows Azure, a young woman whose fianc, Deep, is killed by the police. As she navigates her grief, the pair's friends Roshad and Tone are also confronting the impact of the loss on their own lives, guided and challenged by the spiritual Heavenly MCs of Street Knowledge, who blur the lines between our realm and the next.