{"id":301317,"date":"2026-02-16T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301317\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:30:08","slug":"chadwick-bosemans-brothers-say-late-stars-play-will-help-preserve-his-memory-ents-arts-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301317\/","title":{"rendered":"Chadwick Boseman’s brothers say late star’s play will help ‘preserve his memory’ | Ents & Arts News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A play written by the late Hollywood star Chadwick Boseman is part of a legacy that will “preserve his memory”, his brothers have told Sky News.<\/p>\n

Deep Azure, a play based around the death of Prince Jones, a black student who was killed by a police officer in Virginia in 2000, is premiering in the UK at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London.<\/p>\n

Boseman<\/a>, who died in 2020, four years after being diagnosed with colon cancer<\/a>, attended the same university, Howard, in Washington DC, and was inspired to write by the true events.<\/p>\n

Best known for his starring role in Black Panther, the Oscar nominee also spent a lot of time writing outside of his acting work.<\/p>\n

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The star’s brothers Kevin and Derek say director Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu “fell in love” with Deep Azure after coming across it a few years ago, and pitched the idea to Shakespeare’s Globe.<\/p>\n

“It preserves his memory,” Derek told presenters Anna Jones<\/a> and Kamali Melbourne<\/a> on Mornings on Sky News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said it had taken him years to come to terms with his brother’s death.<\/p>\n

“This play is absolutely about grief,” said Kevin. “It’s about love, it’s about faith. So, yeah, all of that definitely connects to what we’ve been through.”<\/p>\n

Paying tribute to his brother, Kevin said his happiest memories are of the time they lived together in New York after college.<\/p>\n

“My fondest memories really are of us living together, and him experiencing New York City and becoming an artist.”<\/p>\n

Deep Azure is inspired by Shakespeare and the poetry of hip-hop, as well as jazz. Boseman’s brothers say he always had a passion for theatre and that it is one of several plays he wrote before he died.<\/p>\n

It follows Azure, whose world spirals out of control after her fianc\u00e9 Deep is killed by the police.<\/p>\n

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“Writing was his number one thing,” Derek said.<\/p>\n

“He actually initially was a directing major and took an acting class to better understand as a director how to communicate with actors, and then studied at Oxford, the British Academy of Dramatic Arts summer programme,” Kevin continued. “And then became a great actor.”<\/p>\n

“He was always writing,” said Derek. “If we were on a vacation or sitting in the living room watching television, he always had a notebook or a laptop, and he was always writing.”<\/p>\n

Deep Azure is now showing at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A play written by the late Hollywood star Chadwick Boseman is part of a legacy that will “preserve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-301317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}