This Bitter Earth Tickets

At the Million Hoodie March in 2012, Jesse, a young black man, encounters Neil, a young white man who has unwittingly found himself at the front of the crowd with a megaphone in his hand. Flash forward several weeks, and Jesse and Neil have begun dating. However, as the months pass and Neil works his way further into the world of activism, Jesse never enters it. Over the years, Jesse and Neil negotiate the complex “firsts” of their relationship against a backdrop of political demonstrations and discord. With history unfolding around them every day, Jesse and Neil must contend with the fact that, no matter their response to social turmoil, they cannot remain untouched by it.

Who is in the cast of This Bitter Earth?

Starring Omari Douglas as Jesse and Alexander Lincoln as Neil

Understudies are Stanton Plummer-Cambridge (Jesse) and Luke Striffler (Neil)

Who are the creative team of This Bitter Earth?

Written by Harrison David Rivers

Directed by Billy Porter

Set and costume design by Morgan Large, original composition by Sean Green, sound design by Julian Starr, casting by Rob Kelly, production management by Toby Darvill, with Elsie O’Rourke as Company Stage Manager, Jordan Deegan-Fleet as Deputy Stage Manager

Produced by Thomas Hopkins; with Jana Robbins, Craig Haffner & Sherry Wright; Alex Deacon, Jonathan Kaldor & Kohl Beck; in association with John Rogerson and Sarig Peker