This Bitter Earth review – The exquisite pain of loving deeply and fearlessly (EXCLUSIVE)

Alexander Lincoln (left) and Omari Douglas (right) (Image: Tristram Kenton)

This Bitter Earth’s rainbow-tinted promo poster, featuring a shirtless Omari Douglas and Alexander Lincoln locked in a tight embrace, delivers effortlessly on its brief for a gay audience. Bravo — you have our attention, and yes, we’d be more than delighted to witness that skin-to-skin contact in Soho Theatre. But what plays out on stage is no flirt and certainly no tease. What unfolds is something braver, bruising — and infinitely rewarding. For ninety minutes, we’re given the privilege of witnessing the aching, exquisitely crafted intimacy between characters Jesse (Douglas) and Neil (Lincoln).

Alexander Lincoln and Omari Douglas (Image: Tristram Kenton)

Harrison David Rivers’ non-linear, memory-soaked script is set between 2012–2015, a time when Barack Obama sat in the

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