A powerful new play starring Sylvester Williams (East Enders, Bullet Boy, The Posse, The Amen Corner)
Rivers to Cross takes audiences on a 174 year roller coaster, multi-media journey through Imperialism, Segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, the “Windrush” era and the Black Consciousness Movement, telling the true stories of great accomplishments in the face of adversity.
The play features a host of greats including Ira Aldridge, Walter Tull, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Dr Harold Moody, Paul Robeson and President Barack Obama, in an examination of the black male experience since emancipation.