BLACK LOVE launches Kiln Theatre’s 2022 season

The Kiln Theatre have announced that Chinonyerem Odimba’s Black Love will launch the theatre’s 2022 season, running from 28 March-23 April 2022.

With a book and lyrics by Chinonyerem Odimba, music by Ben and Max Ringham and direction by Odimba and Katie Posner, this production follows a successful tour as part of Paines Plough’s Roundabout season earlier this year.

Meet Aurora and Orion. Sister and brother. Constellations in time. More than blood. More than just fam.

Inside their small London flat, memories of their parents’ Black love surrounds them. When that love is threatened, they must first find understanding and connection before they can begin to find a way back to one another.

An explosion of form-busting storytelling, Black Love celebrates and investigates the Black experience through music, real-life stories and imagined worlds.

Indhu Rubasingham said: “It is a pleasure to bring Black Love to the Kiln stage - it’s a beautiful, theatrical piece that will resonate with many. Chino, Katie, Ben and Max all met here in 2019, collaborating on our fabulous community play The Seven Ages of Patience. So, to have them back on their next collaboration feels very fitting, especially with this special show.”

Writer and co-director of Black Love and Artistic Director of tiata fahodzi, Chinonyerem Odimba, said: “Working with Kiln Theatre and Paines Plough to bring this very special musical show back on stage is a wonderful opportunity for us at tiata fahodzi. Black Love has already engaged so many audiences across the UK in important conversations about family, joy, and race in contemporary Britain, and I can’t wait for more audiences in London to share the love!”

The Kiln Theatre auditorium will be transformed into the round.

Casting will be announced in the new year.

For more information and to book tickets, please click here.