Across tube stations in London right now, there’s an image that might catch you off guard. Two Black men, one shirtless, embracing each other in a defiant display of queerness.
“It was really important to me to have an image for this play that was unashamedly, unapologetically Black and queer,” says actor, writer and Olivier Award nominee Danny Lee Wynter. “How many times do you see a picture on the underground of two black men being intimate?”
He’s sitting in the bar area of the capital’s Royal Court Theatre, the same theatre in which he used to work as an usher. Now, his debut play Black Superhero is on its main stage.