Theatre review: Noughts & Crosses – York Theatre Royal

First published in The Times, Friday September 23 2022

THREE STARS

It is now 20 years since the first of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses series of books for young adults was published. The intervening years have only made her vision of a racially segregated society, in which the white Noughts are subordinate to the ruling black Crosses, even more vital, not to mention ripe for adaptation. A second series of the BBC dramatisation screened this year, while Sabrina Mahfouz’s theatrical version, first staged in 2019, is set to tour until next April.