Dreamscape review – dazzling hip-hop drama reclaims vital spirit of teenager slain by police

2026-02-15 - 16:25

Omnibus theatre, London Inspired by the 1998 shooting of Tyisha Miller, the lost hopes and memories of a young Black woman – played beautifully by Jada Evelyn Ramsey – are explored through words, dance and beatboxing Before George Floyd, after Rodney King, and in between countless others, there was Tyisha Miller. She was 19 when she was shot dead by police officers while she lay unconscious in her car in California, in 1998, joining the long, appalling, litany of Black victims of police violence. Here she is named Myeisha Mills, still dead after an officer shoots 12 bullets into her body, but simultaneously alive or rising from the dreamscape of the title to tell us about herself with a painfully exuberant, sweet guilelessness. Continue reading...