Robert Schenkkan’s Building the Wallbrought the stars out for press night, with Bryan Cranston and Juliet Stevensonamong its esteemed audience. It’s little surprise. Schenkkan’s latest play is a nice little coup for the Park Theatre – an 80 minute gallop through a near-dystopian (but still bleakly Trumpian) future, which has already found favour with American audiences and gets its UK debut here in N4.

It is 2019 and President Trump has been impeached. So far, so believable. Rick (Trevor White) is incarcerated awaiting sentencing for inexplicable crimes and grants a single interview to share his ‘truth’ – with the African-American historian Gloria (Angela Griffin). Gloria’s lifelong relationship with the question of race in America brought her first to academia and then here to Rick’s cell – ‘to understand why you did what they say you did’. To read more, click here.