Noughts & Crosses theatre review — a timely adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s novel

Noughts and Crosses, review: Like being battered over the head with a ...

Noughts & Crosses theatre review — a timely adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s novel

At London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, the story of a racist society with a twist is powerfully staged, though overloaded with narrative

Noughts & Crosses at Regent's park Open Air Theatre review

Over the nearly-25 years since the first instalment was published, Noughts & Crosses has become a juggernaut in the world of Young Adult literature. Across six novels, three novellas and a two-series BBC adaptation, Malorie Blackman imagines an alternate history in which colonial powers from Africa conquered the west, subverting global power dynamics.  This is a world divided between the Noughts, the oppressed light-skinned people, and the Cross…

‘Noughts & Crosses’ review – Malorie Blackman’s novel is creatively staged, but lacks fresh social commentary

Borne out of the same script used for the earlier Royal Shakespeare Company production, but given a new, electric staging at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Dominic Cooke’s take on Noughts & Crosses successfully replicates the dual, first person narrative of the book, though offers little that’s original in terms of its social commentary on race and prejudice.

Noughts & Crosses – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre - North West End UK

What means more to you: being someone or making a difference? Based on the acclaimed novel by Malorie Blackman and adapted by Dominic Cooke, Noughts & Crosses tells the story of two star-crossed friends-to-lovers who learn to grow and adapt together in this Romeo & Juliet-esque love story. In this world, there is a divide between the Noughts and the Crosses. Callum, is from a Nought family and Sephy, from a Cross family. Their worlds have intert…

NOUGHTS AND CROSSES review by thespyinthestalls at Regent's

NOUGHTS AND CROSSES Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre ★★★ “what could be a gripping, nail-biting production is brought away from the cliff edge by the proclamatory style of the writing” Malorie Blackman’s series of novels, headlined by the opener “Noughts and Crosses”, describes an alternative, present-day reality in which the controversial subject of racial power is turned on its head. The premise is explored through a tale of forbidden love in t…