BANG BANG. Only the audience dies with laughter.
Theatre Review By Stephen Weir, Caribbean Camera Today's Caribbean Camera - Review by Stephen Weir Toronto’s Factory Lab Theatre has given auidences an extra few days to see a very funny dark play about the police shooting of an unarmed black man. Bang Bang (guess what it is all about) was to close earlier this week, but, due to overwhelming demand for tickets five additional performances have been added - the curtain drops February 24 th . A rookie female black police officer ( Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah) shoots an unarmed black youth, and a white playwright ( Jeff Lillico) uses the incident as inspiration for his new hit play. Problem is, the playwright changes an important fact about the outcome of the shooting – the victim survived the shooting but the very successful play (which everyone believes) has the victim dying from his gun shot wound. The black community believe the play and turn against the rookie cop. The play which got its world premier lat