It’s a good week for Jewish musicals on the fringe with ‘Hetty Feinstein’s Wedding Anniversary’ playing at the New End until December 6 and a scratch performance of Giles Howe and Katy Lipson’s new musical about the struggle for a Jewish homeland (‘Soviet Zion’) playing at the Rosemary Branch on Monday 19.
Come to think of it, it’s a pretty good week for multicultural theatre in general. There are a number of shows on to mark Black History Month (which we will be dedicating an entire blog to next week, so watch this space) including Paul Morris’s ‘The Meeting’ at the Warehouse Theatre, The Tricycle’s ‘Not Black and White’ season, ‘Misterioso’ over at the Riverside Studios, ‘Love, Sax and All That Jazz’ at the Albany and the launch of the Black Theatre Archive at the National Theatre on Friday 16.
'Sasuage and Samosa' at Rich Mix
Sadly, they’ll be no candles burning in Theatreland for Divali this year, although ‘Sausage and Samosa’, the story of one woman’s attempts to infiltrate the world of arranged marriages, is on at Rich Mix on Thursday 15. And East Asian theatre company Yellow Earth will be launching its short season of new writing at the Greenwich Theatre with Jean Tay’s ‘Boom’.
Other international work comes in the shape of Mexican playwright Humberto Robles’s one-woman show about Frida Kahlo which plays at Oval House Theatre from Tuesday 20, Gary Henderson’s ‘Skin Tight’, directed by Stella Duffy for New Zealand theatre company Shaky Isle and a French-language production of ‘Le Petit Prince’ playing at the magical Wilton’s Musical Hall on Friday 16.
And for those looking for something a little closer to home, check out Martin Cort’s historical sketch comedy ‘The Unimportant History of Britain’ which transfers from the Lion and Unicorn to Above the Stag on Tuesday 13.
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