The Hot Wing King, National Theatre review - high kitchen-stove comedy, with sides of drama
Katori Hall is back in her native Memphis with an exuberant ensemble piece There's an exuberant comedy from the start in Katori Hall's The Hot Wing King, which comes to London after an initial Covid-truncated Off Broadway run which brought her a Pulitzer prize in 2021. Roy Alexander Weise's production puts in all the energy it can find and then more, doing its best to balance that comedy with the more serious themes,…