The Annual Black British Theatre Awards Sponsored By The Lyceum Theatre Were A West End Affair This Year After The Awards Left The National Theatre On The South Bank And Re-located To Winners And Presenters Were On Form And TheOrator.Press Had The Privilege of Interviewing A Number of Them During The Sparkling Event And In The Short Time That We Were Allowed Covered And Discovered A Number Fun, Fabulous And Pertinent Topics Including The Importance of This Theatre Awards Night. We Spoke To Layton Williams From Strictly, Claudia Kariuku From Chicago, Current Affairs Journalist Afua Hirsch (Back From America – Where The Elections Were Taking Place The Next Day), Lemar Who Made To The Final Three In This Year’s Masked Singer And Zoe Birkett Who’s Playing Tina Turner In ‘Tina’ The Musical.
Photo: Zoe Birkett As Tina Turner @suri_suri903. Zoe Co.Presented The Best Supporting Actress Award With Lemar At The BBTAs On Monday November 4th 2024. We Spoke To Her About The Physical Demands And Challenges of Playing Tina’ And How She Looks After Her Wellbeing, Physical, And Mental Health (Including Working Out At David Lloyd Health Clubs)
I’m Actually The Same As Tina. Cherekee Indian And African. The Congo.
Zoe Birkett who plays tina turner in tina the musical, talking to theorator.press online Magazine at the black british theatre awards 2024
Singer Lemar Who co-presented The Best Supporting male and female actor at the bbtas 2024, monday november 4th 2024 at the lyceum theatre
I Didn’t Realise How Much of A Family Unit The Theatre World Is.
Layton Williams With His BBTA For LGBTQ Champion Enjoying “A Whole Denium Moment” Courtesy of African Designer Ahluwalia. He Told Us That He Felt Wearing An Out By An African Designer Was Important For The Occassion. A Number of Other Guests Agreed With Him, Including Founder Omar Okai Who Wore A Wonderful Kinte Cloth Shoulder Sash And Award Winner Elena Gyasi Who Wore A Kinte Cloth Cumberband With A Beautiful LBD (Little Black Dress).
@laytonwilliams @Ahluwhalia @ivanoturco
@thebbtas (Omar) @thebbtas (Elena)
Being At The BBTAs
Ivano Turco Wins Best Male Lead Actor In A Play
Layton’s Next Project – “Titanique”
“A Whole Denim Moment”
Policital Journalist, Social Commentator And Author Afua Hirsch Was In The House And The American Election Was Taking Place The Next Day, So Having Watched Her Over The years On Various Curret Affairs Programmes And Knowing That She’d Been Working In The States We Simply Had To Ask Her Thoughts On The Trump/Harris Election Race.
Why The Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs) Are So Important. “We’re Creating For Us By Us.” “Everyone’s Welcome To Enjoy It.” “But We Centre Ourselves.”
Resilience. Work Ethic. Determination. Support. Big Energy In The House. We’re All Here Because We Believe in It.
Afua Hirsch And Her Fantastic $50m Black History Documentary With Samuel Jackson ‘Enslaved’ (Featuring The Fabulous ‘Dive With A Purpose’ Sea Dectectives & Historians).
The American Election Taking Place The Following Day. Kamala & Trump Both Had Rallies In Manhattan. Trump Supporters In NYC.
@afuahirsch @kamalaharris @samueljackson @divingwithapurpose
Video: Actress & Comedian Thanyia Moore @ThanyiaMoore Sums Up The Star Spangled Night In Her Own Words
Claudia Kariuki Won The Champion Awards For ‘Best Non Binary Performer’. We Spoke To Her About What ‘Non-Binary’ Actually Means And Her Willingness To Help Educate Others With Their Understanding About Different Aspects The LGBT Community.
Kariuki Also Won Best Non-Binary Actor In A Performance At The BBTAs 2023 For Her Role In Six, The Play About The Henry VIII’s Six Wives.
She’s Done Mountview Academy of Arts Proud! mountview.org.uk
And Vinted Too! (vinted.co.uk) @claudiakariuki
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Living As A Non-Binary Person Means So Much To me
Lemar Was In The House To Co.Present The Best Supporting Actress Award With Zoe Birkett. We Spoke With Zoe Birkett Who Was So Impressive And Inspirational (As Per Our ‘Pod On A Page’ Above – Part of Our Continued ‘Pod On A Page’ Interview Series).
Lemar Was Lovely. We Talked Sister Act, The Masked Singer, Jamelia, Queen Charlotte, Craig David And…‘Lemar & Love’!
@lemar (In Queen Charlotte)
@lemar (With Craig David In Concert – Coming Up In 2025)
@lemar (Finalist In The Masked Singer – As Cricket Earlier This Year)
@lemar (In Chicago)
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