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Theatre

I came out feeling euphoric and disorientated: Young Vic’s Blue/Orange reviewed

Plus: a quirky, engaging, affectionate portrait of David Baddel’s mum and dad at the Menier Chocolate Factory

28 May 2016

9:00 AM

28 May 2016

9:00 AM

Blue/Orange

Young Vic, until 2 July

My Family: Not The Sitcom

Menier Chocolate Factory, until 25 June

Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall enjoys the dubious status of a modern classic. A black mental-health patient, Christopher, is about to be freed from a clinic but his cautious young shrink, Bruce, wants to keep him under observation. His senior colleague, Robert, thinks a dose of the big bad world will help to cure the nervy, delusional Christopher, who claims Idi Amin as his father and insists that all oranges are blue.

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