A comedy set in Port of Spain, Trinidad, it features the annual carnival festivity as a central setting for showing inter-racial tensions on the island. The connection between power and masquerade...
This choreography by the renowned soloist dancer from Brazil, Ismael Ivo, investigates the role played by the historical past and personal memories in shaping the present. As noted in the programme,...
The show is a display of traditional and ritual drumming, singing and dancing from West Africa presented by a group of Ghanaian musicians. The programme explains that Oboade means 'ancient' in the...
This melodrama is based on the story of the legendary Jack Mansong, an escaped Jamaican slave, who in 1780 organised a feared gang of escaped slaves and lost two of his fingers in a clash with the...
This tragi-comedy, based on the novella by Aphra Behn, was first performed in 1695. Oroonoko, an African prince sold into slavery, falls in love with Imoinda, also of noble birth and enslaved....
The play is set in Tobago in the Caribbean and explores the relationship between the master and the servant through a failed middle aged English actor, who runs a guest house on the island, and his...
Drawing on Yoruba culture, this version of Aphra Behn’s 1688 novella reinstates the African scenes that were cut in previous drama adaptations and presents for the first time on stage the...
The play juxtaposes historical events from the 1791 Haitian Revolution with the 1985 Broadwater Farm riots in London. The story is told through its central character, Ragamuffin, the warrior, fusing...
Translated as The Kind Does Not Hang, this was a Yoruba Folk Opera retelling of the story of King Sango and his two rival generals. The performance represented an example of Total Theatre,...
The play is inspired by the 1950s novel Brotherman by Roger Mais, and explores the vision and the spiritual profundity of Rastafarianism and the way it has shaped the culture and philosophy of...
