It’s summertime in Memphis, Tennessee and the annual Hot Wing Contest is about to roll through. Cordell has his sights set on the crown this year, with the support of his partner Dwayne and friends, Isom and Big Charles. Together, they are The New Wing Order, and they’re serving wings worthy of ‘kangs’.
Cordell’s culinary crew are getting ready to fire up his new mouth-watering ‘finna-be first-place’ recipe, when the arrival of an unexpected guest throws some extra heat up in the kitchen on prep night.
As the temperature rises and the sauce boils over, it seems a first-place trophy and a grand cash prize aren’t the only things Cordell risks losing. Can he take the heat, or will he have to get out the kitchen?
The Hot Wing King By Katori Hall ;
Production ;
Cast: Jason Barnett, Kaireece Denton, Kadiff Kirwan, Olisa Odele, Simon-Anthony Rhoden & Dwane Walcott ;
Directed by Roy Alexander Weise ;
Set and Costume Designer Rajha Shakiry
Lighting Designer Joshua Pharo ;
Composer Femi Temowo ;
Sound Designer Elena Peña ;
Movement Director DK Fashola ;
Intimacy and Fight Director Bethan Clark ;
Casting Director Jacob Sparrow ;
Dramatherapist Samantha Adams ;
Dialect Coach Hazel Holder ;
Associate Set and Costume Designer Ruth Hall Linbury ;
Set and Costume Associate Yimei Zhao ;
Staff Director Cory Hippolyte ;
National Theatre ;
Dorfman Theatre ;
London, UK ;
12 July 2024 ;
Credit & copyright: Helen Murray ;
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Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hot Wing King, is a new comedy is told with the love language of food; about family, Black Masculinity, sexuality and the journey to finding home, in a fiery new production directed by Roy Alexander Weise
At the National theatre until September 14th
