For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide…: a modern masterpiece returns

There’s a moment in Ryan Calais Cameron’s smash-hit play, back for a second West End run, when the swaggering Onyx (Tobi King Bakare), wrapped in his black hoodie, breaks beneath the weight of the hard man cliches he’s been protecting himself with for most of his life and says “You ever feel like Black boys were made to give more love than we could ever receive?” It’s a soul-jolting moment that lays bare this play’s startling ability to break down every identity trope it sets up.