The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the present day. In doing so it charts the journey from specialist black theatre companies to the mainstream, including West End success, while providing a cultural and racial barometer for Britain during the last forty years. It opens with Mustapha Matura's 1979 play Welcome Home Jacko which in its depiction of a group of young unemployed West Indians was one of the first to explore issues of youth culture, identity and racial and cultural identification. Jackie Kay's Chiaroscuro examines debates about the politics of black, mixed race and lesbian identities in 1980s Britain, and from the 1990s Winsome Pinnock's Talking in Tongues engages with the politics of feminism to explore issues of black women's identity in Britian and Jamaica. From the first decade of the twenty-first century the three plays include Roy Williams' seminal pub-drama Sing Yer Hearts Out for the Lads, exploring racism and identity against the backdrop of the World Cup; Kwame Kwei-Armah's National Theatre play of 2004, Fix Up, about black cultural history and progress in modern Britain, and finally Bola Agbage's terrific 2007 debut, Gone Too Far!, which examines questions of identity and tensions between Africans and Caribbeans living in Britain. Edited by Lynnette Goddard, this important anthology provides an essential introduction to the last forty years of British black theatre.
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Reflecting this multiplicity of perspectives, the plays in this collection explode the traditional ways of representing black families on the American stage, and create new means to consider the interplay of race, with questions of class, ...
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This anthology presents six of the best new plays by some of the most exciting American playwrights whose work is currently gaining acclaim.
Five outstanding plays from the British theatre of the 1960s.This volume contains major works by five of the most important playwrights ot emerge during the late fifties and early sixties....
I feel like my parents couldn't deal with it, it was so strong for them that they couldn't deal with explaining it to us. I have the feeling that there wasn't a limit to evil. Ghost people, in the end. I never asked.
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And if you choked it would be an “oh well.” Life is hard 'nough with a rooster's cock-doodle wakin me every morn and sometimes sky thunder wakin me in the dead of night but havin to endure your empty talk, you comin here actin like ...
of social realism, to which tucker green is arguably the only challenger, both experimentally and experientially. This chapter places tucker green's work within traditions of women's experimental writing, where her intricate plaiting of ...
As a result of their success in the Young Writers' Competition, Hilaire's Just Another Day and Randall's Fishing were given a professional production at the Royal Court's Young Writers Festival on 8 October 1982, directed by Danny Boyle ...