Chasing Rainbows review – boldly going into the white, male space race

Hoxton Hall, London
Donna Berlin is intense as an astronaut in Oneness Sankara's play about the emotional cost of female ambition

'I would like to tell you a story about being the first," Ama Baptiste tells us. Ama was the first in her family to go to university, the first to get a master's degree and the first Caribbean woman in space.

She speaks while hanging in midair centre-stage in an astronaut's suit, the sky and clouds drawn in the backdrop. She is at a space station orbiting Earth, we are told, and her words remind us that even in the 50th anniversary year of the first moon landing, the mythology around space endeavour remains largely masculine and white.