Choir Boy

Tarrell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy is probably his best known play, and second best known work overall after his acclaimed film Moonlight. But despite a triumphant Broadway run, its London life has thus far been confined to an ultra sold out 2012 stint at the Royal Court’s tiny Upstairs theatre. But director Nancy Medina helmed a major revival at the Bristol Old Vic a couple of years back, and now it transfers to Stratford East as the second show in Lisa Spirling’s inaugural season. Set at an elite Black prep school in the States, it follows a group of boys as they negotiate race, sexuality, class and more.