Deep Azure

There were more strings to the late, great Chadwick Boseman’s bow than playing Black Panther, and one of the lesser known ones is that pre acting stardom he wrote several plays, the most prominent – and last – of which was 2005’s Deep Azure. A verse drama, it follows Azure, a young Black woman with an eating disorder as she tried to come to terms with the death of her fiance deep in an act of Black on Black violence. By far the. most successful of Boseman’s plays, it atracted considerable critical attention in the US but this production from Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu marks its UK debut. Selina Jones and Jayden Elijah head the cast as Azure and Deep respectively.