The Hot Wing King

US playwright Katori Hall had her breakthrough in the UK when her play ‘The Mountaintop’ unexpectedly became a huge success, eventually beating Jez Butterworth’s ‘Jerusalem’ to best play at the 2010 Oliviers. We’ve seen surprisingly little of her work since bar the smash musical ‘Tina: The Tina Turner Musical’ (which she wrote the book for), but here’s a major UK premiere as Hall makes her National Theatre debut with her 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner ‘The Hot Wing King’, which follows hero Cordell Crutchfield’s heroic attempt to reclaim the crown at Memphis, Tennessee’s hot wing festival. Roy Alexander Weise directs a cast that will be headed up by Kadiff Kirwan as Cordell.