For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy Returns To The West End In 2024

Due to phenomenal demand, Ryan Calais Cameron’s award-winning production will return to London’s West End for a limited 9-week run. This follows three previous sold-out runs, the latest at the Apollo Theatre which took place earlier this year.

For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy will perform at the Garrick Theatre from 29 February - 4 May 2024.

Inspired by Ntozake Shange’s seminal work For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf, For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy is located on the threshold of joyful fantasy and brutal reality: a world of music, movement, storytelling and verse – where six men clash and connect in a desperate bid for survival. Father figures and fashion tips. Lost loves and jollof rice. African empires and illicit sex. Good days and bad days. Six young Black men meet for group therapy, and let their hearts – and imaginations – run wild.

The play was originally conceived by Ryan Calais Cameron in the wake of the killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 and has been developed over the last decade with young Black men and mental health groups. 

For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy’s creative team includes Set design by Anna Reid, lighting design by Rory Beaton, Sound Design and Composition by Nicola T Chang, movement direction by Theophilus O. Bailey, musical direction and vocal arrangement by John Pfumojena and casting by Isabella Odoffin. Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu directed the show’s original run at the New Diorama Theatre. Casting will be announced in due course.

Tickets will go on general sale at 2pm on Wednesday 22 November 2023, with 25% of all tickets available at £25 or under throughout the run. Priority booking is now open. Futher information can be found via https://nimaxtheatres.com/shows/for-black-boys-garrick/