Theatre review: Retrograde – the trials of Sidney Poitier

03 April 2025, The Tablet

Ivanno Jeremiah as Sidney Poitier

Marc Brenner

The trials of Sidney Poitier

Retrograde feels consciously indebted to David Mamet’s Speed-The-Plow (1988), a ­previous three-hander set in a Hollywood executive’s office.

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