INTERVIEW
‘If he was alive today, Bob Marley would have been front and centre of the Black Lives Matter movement’
Actor and playwright Arinzé Kene is fond of a challenge – but playing the lodestar of reggae in the West End is possibly his greatest yet
Arinzé Kene is happy. In the last few days, he has been back on stage for the first time in more than a year in previews for new West End show Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical. It has been, he says, an emotional journey.
“Even on the first day of rehearsals there were some tears,” he says.
Kene is one of the most important and exciting voices in theatre in this country. , which he
