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Theatre

Bloated waffle: Jitney at the Old Vic reviewed

25 June 2022

9:00 AM

25 June 2022

9:00 AM

Jitney

Old Vic, until 9 July

That Is Not Who I Am

Royal Court, until 16 July

The Old Vic’s new show, Jitney, has a mystifying YouTube advert which gives no information about the play or the characters. If the producers paid for the marketing themselves, they’d do a better job.

The advert fails even to mention that ‘Jitney’ is Pittsburgh slang for ‘taxi’ and that the action is set in a cab firm in the 1970s.

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