Oxford Street

Location: Royal Court Theatre Upstairs/ Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre
Director: Dawn Walton

"Cyril Nri gives a lovely performance as the impatient but humorously good-natured security manager who takes a protective, avuncular interest in young Kofi". 
Paul Taylor, The Independent.

"You can relish the detail in the performances of Cyril Nri as the delightfully philosophical manager". 
Michael Coveney, Whats on Stage.

The Bill

Channel: ITV 1
Director: Various Directors

“Actor Cyril Nri has been crying non-stop during one of the most emotional plotlines ever screened on The Bill. Millions will watch this week as his character Superintendent Adam Okaro cracks up after learning that his wife and children have died in a car crash”. - Sunday People

Othello

Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham
Director: John Harrison

 “Othello was played as a happy if naïve man by Nri – all too easily persuaded of his wife’s infidelity, but the howls of pain that emanate from this strong and powerful soldier are genuinely moving”. –Sally Walmsley

Playboy of the West Indies

Tricycle Theatre
Director: Nick Kent

“But the pusillanimity of the town is thrown into sharp relief when Cyril Nri’s Ken appears. His early punchy reaction to all the attention soon gives way to a swagger, which unleashes the attractive dreamer in him. The tension between him and Noble is electrifying”. – Nick Curtis, Evening Standard.

“Nri hits the nail on the head as the eponymous playboy and father-killer manqué: he combines youthful shyness with loving warmth and a dash of excited bravado”. – Kate Bassett

“The two central performances are very strong: Cyril Nri making a journey from loser to liar before your eyes”. – The Independent.

The Tempest

Old Vic Theatre
Director: Jonathon Miller

“The Ariel of Cyril Nri (a superbly tactful and accomplished performance) is a powdered invention who belongs to the populace of Papua New Guinean goddesses”. – Michael Coveney, Financial Times.

“Cyril Nri plays Ariel not as some diaphanous trickster but as a spirit who mimics human gestures as if he had mortal longings in him”. – Michael Billington, The Guardian.

“Cyril Nri’s superb sprite-like Ariel obeys Prospero with an element of privately enjoyed irony, almost within inverted commas. His riveting eyes slither from side to side with lazy sly humour”. - Paul Taylor, The Independent.

Native sprite Ariel (Cyril Nri in an intelligent, accomplished performance) whose dark skin is whitened to give it ethereal, translucent silkiness proves a mischievous mimic of mortals and willing accomplice”. - Helen Rose, Time Out.