A meditation on Black queerness, experience and spirit, Choir Boy premiered in London’s West End, was nurtured in the US and landed among the bright lights of Broadway’s 2019 season. What will happen to the choir, and these boys, as they enter their final year of high school? ‘Pharus is three-dimensional and complex’ … Darron Hayes in Choir Boy. Choir Boy offers these questions to audiences as suggestions of plot, snatches of mood and something that feels more like the crest of an emotion than a fully formed story: it is a chorus of aching hearts. Choir Boy feels like a poem inside a play: the plot bends to make way for imagery, music, glimpses at young hearts.
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