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Seize The Day is the brand new play written and directed by renowned actor and playwright
Kwame Kwei-Armah, now showing at the Tricycle Theatre as part of their ‘Not Black And White’ season – three pieces reflecting on the state of contemporary Britain.
Jeremy Charles, played by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, is upwardly-mobile young London personified. With his respectable, English wife and plush house, he’s enjoying newfound success as a Reality TV star, off the back of a The Apprentice-style show. He is in demand for everything from autographs to presenting work. One day, whilst filming a report he intervenes in a scuffle involving some young Afro-Caribbean men; when one of them, Lavelle (Aml Ameen), threatens to stab Jeremy he knocks him unconscious. The whole incident is caught on camera and thanks to YouTube Jeremy’s popularity gets a further boost.
