Barber Shop Chronicles
Closed 1h 55m
Barber Shop Chronicles
87%
87%
(1 Rating)
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Members say
Funny, Absorbing, Intelligent, Great staging, Great writing

About the Show

Inua Ellams' exhilarating play which captures male conversations in barbershops across the world.

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Critic Reviews (4)

The Guardian (UK)
July 26th, 2019

Inua Ellams’ beautifully observed work is a pulsing and poetic delight; a sweeping snapshot of life as an African man as a dizzying host of customers take a seat, relax and let us into their lives.
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The Arts Desk
July 25th, 2019

Riotous theatre at its best...Must-see show takes place in barber shops in London, Lagos, Accra, Harare, Kampala, Johannesburg
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Time Out London
July 25th, 2019

Inua Ellams’s brilliantly vivid, funny, moving drama about the importance of barber shops to the black African and diaspora experience
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The London Evening Standard
July 25th, 2019

Inua Ellams’s witty study of black masculinity has lost a layer of intimacy in its transfer from the National Theatre’s Dorfman to the cavernous Roundhouse but remains a thrilling piece of work.
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