The White Card Tickets

“Arriving from Northern Stage in Newcastle with some great reviews in tow, Natalie Ibu’s spikey staging of the European premiere of Claudia Rankine’s play about race, art and privilege is likely to generate conversation between theatre-goers. In fact the play itself takes the form of two conversations separated by a year. In the first scene, rising black artist Charlotte, is patronised and discomforted by a family of white wealthy art collectors when she is invited to dinner in order to persuade her to sell them her art. The second riffs further as white privilege, how we look and what we see and fail to see are examined. Talky theatre, but by all accounts, never dull.”