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Ryan Calais Cameron: ‘I’ve yet to see an authentic depiction of young Black men on ...

The Independent 21 Oct 2021
There are conversations that young Black men are groomed not to be able to have among one another,” Ryan Calais Cameron says ... The show has been described as a “Black boy fantasia”, but Cameron tells me it also feels like “open heart surgery” ... Cameron’s show takes its name from ...
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Review: For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy, at ...

Islington Tribune 21 Oct 2021
Inspired by Ntozake Shange’s seminal choreopoem, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Ryan Calais Cameron’s touching play – with an equally long name – articulates the hopes and fears of six young black men living in Britain today and what binds them together.
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For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy review

The Guardian 18 Oct 2021
New Diorama theatre, London Ryan Calais Cameron’s exploration of race and masculinity is timely and has potent moments but this production feels underdeveloped British dramatist Ryan Calais Cameron’s play feels immensely timely in its exploration of Black masculinity, although it was conceived after the killing of Trayvon Martin in 2013 ... ....
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New Diorama Theatre celebrates its tenth anniversary

British Theatre Guide 01 Aug 2021
Published. 1 August 2021. Reporter. Sandra Giorgetti Share ... Most importantly, we’ll be doing it all together again." ... For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy sees six men clash and connect in a desperate bid for survival; written by Nouveau Riche’s Ryan Calais Cameron and directed by Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu ... Police Cops ... .
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People of colour are often written out of history, but period dramas can provoke important conversations

The Independent 06 Apr 2021
The interpretation of history in dramatisations has always been passionately debated ... The main issue I faced was the lack of information about his life ... Read more ... SIGN UP ... Read our privacy notice ... Ryan Calais Cameron is a playwright, his play Typical is a stage play and film, inspired by the true-life events of British ex-serviceman Christopher Alder ... .
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The week in theatre: Hymn; Typical review – first-rate and perfectly balanced

The Observer 28 Feb 2021
Intensity can dissolve distance ... Lester and Sapani are first-rate and perfectly balanced ... The title of Ryan Calais Cameron’s one-man play clenches on the idea that though his dying was preventable, the events leading up to it were “typical”, based on everyday assumptions about how a black man behaves ... is Cameron’s imagining of Alder’s last day ... .
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Typical review — Richard Blackwood mixes braggadocio and vulnerability

The Times/The Sunday Times 25 Feb 2021
The first thing to say about this filmed version of Ryan Calais Cameron’s monologue about a true-life death in police custody is that Richard Blackwood ...
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Typical review – Richard Blackwood is mesmerising in poetic tragedy

The Guardian 25 Feb 2021
Yet what is marked about Ryan Calais Cameron’s astounding play, written in rap-like rhyming verse and tracing the minutiae of its ...
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Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Girl on an Altar; Typical; Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Islington Tribune 25 Feb 2021
Meera Syal in Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Photo. Richard Hubert Smith. FOR one night only, the Kiln is live streaming a rehearsed reading of Girl on an Altar by Marina Carr ... Visit ... • Soho Theatre and Nouveau Riche have released the film version of Typical by Ryan Calais Cameron, starring Richard Blackwood and directed by Anastasia Osei-Kuffour ... Visit.
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Christopher Alder: New film about Hull police station death

BBC News 24 Feb 2021
The director of a film about a man who died in police custody says she hopes it will encourage conversations about racism ... CCTV footage showed officers laughing and joking ... 'Heartbreaking' ... The movie, which has been released online, is based on a play written by Ryan Calais Cameron which was performed at the Soho Theatre in London in 2019 ... .
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Richard Blackwood hopes unlawful killing film ‘plants seed’

Belfast Telegraph 19 Feb 2021
The Hollyoaks actor stars in Typical, by Ryan Calais Cameron, which tells the true story of former paratrooper Christopher Alder, 37, who choked to death while handcuffed and lying on the floor of a police station in Hull in 1998. The inquest jury in 2000 returned a verdict of unlawful killing and in 2002 five police officers went on trial ... PA. / ... / ... /.
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Hollyoaks star Richard Blackwood reveals new role tackling racism in the police

Metro UK 19 Feb 2021
Richard Blackwood stars in play Typical (Picture. Ken McKay/ITV/REX) ... Typical, a play by Ryan Calais Cameron, tells the true story of former paratrooper Christopher Alder, 37, who choked to death while handcuffed and lying on the floor of a police station in Hull in 1998 ... The play originally premiered at the Soho Theatre back in 2019 ... PA) ... MORE ... MORE ... .
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Christopher Alder’s sister seeks legal action against police after body burial mix-up

Metro UK 26 Aug 2020
Christopher Alder died in police custody in 1998 – it was later discovered that his family had been given the wrong body to bury (Picture. Rex) ... Advertisement. Advertisement ... Advertisement ... Rex) ... UK ... Playwright Ryan Calais Cameron created a one-man play, Typical, based on Christopher Alder’s death, which is now in the process of being adapted into a film.
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Play about Christopher Alder's death to be turned into film

The Guardian 12 Aug 2020
Ryan Calais Cameron hopes film about black veteran dying in police custody will ignite conversation about racism A play about a ...
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Queens of Sheba

British Theatre Guide 22 Nov 2019
Jessica Hagan, adapted by Ryan Calais Cameron. Nouveau Riche and Omnibus Theatre. Battersea Arts Centre. to. Look for tickets... Share. ... It opens quietly with a black woman standing alone before a mirror, tears running down her cheek as she looks anxiously at the colour of her skin, at her shape ... Passed down unknowingly by my next of kin" ... Sorry.”.
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