The Amen Corner

Nicholai La Barrie is a theatre and film director and has been a MOBO Fellow. He is Associate Director at The Lyric Hammersmith.

Theatre credits include: Aladdin (Lyric Hammersmith); Two Stangers (Carry a cake across NY); Romeo & Juliet (Royal Exchange Theatre), God of Carnage (Lyric Hammersmith); Associate Director Australia & Resident Director West End on Tina – The Tina Turner Musical; Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama); Grey (Oval House); Liar, Heretic, Thief (Lyric Hammersmith); White (Edinburgh Festival ); Gob (London International Festival of Theatre); The Book of Disquiet (Blue Elephant Theatre); I’ll Take You There (Gate); There is Nothing There (Oval House); Chet Baker: Speedball (606 Jazz Club) and Portrait For Posterity (Arcola Theatre).

Film credits include: Hamlet Sort Of (2017); North East South West (Short Film 2016); Aingeal (2012) and Dark Stranger (2009 Official selection Caribbean film festival).

Dramaturge include: Heart of Hammersmith; Feels and The Mob Reformers (Lyric Hammersmith).

James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, and one of America's foremost writers. His essays, such as "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-twentieth-century America. A Harlem, New York, native, he primarily made his home in the south of France. 

His novels include Giovanni's Room (1956), about a white American expatriate who must come to terms with his homosexuality, and Another Country (1962), about racial and gay sexual tensions among New York intellectuals. Going to Meet the Man (1965) and Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968) provided powerful descriptions of American racism. As an openly gay man, he became increasingly outspoken in condemning discrimination against lesbian and gay people.

Contains references to child loss, death and dying, alcohol abuse and drunkenness, miscarriage and sexism. Multiple references to use of blood. This performance contains the use of haze and smoke. 

This amateur production of “The Amen Corner” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk 

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