The play, called by the author 'a clown show' and intended for a white audience, is a complex study of the relationship between black and white people and of the struggle for dominion and liberation....

This musical travels through the life and times of jazz music. In the words of its central character, the Engineer, 'it started in the Congo a long time back. Got my fuel there/ From the beat of the...

This popular comic opera was first performed in 1768 and tells the story of a rich old miser who imprisons his young wife. The play has metaphorical connections to the slavery debate through the...

The play is set on a West Indian island ruled by the Emperor Brutus Jones and traces his journey back to Africa after the rebellion of his subjects. Lost in the forest, the Emperor is faced by...

The show, presented by the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, explored the relationship between a Black man and a White woman in the American South of the 1950s, where memories of slavery impinged...

Starring Thomas Baptiste in the role of Jones, the performance was set on a West Indian island where, to quote the programme 'the form of native government is, for the time being, an Empire.' The...

The Black Spirit was a production celebrating the spiritual force of African people using aesthetic influences from Africa, the Caribbean and Europe. It included two pieces of choreography, Agbara,...

This ;play of revolutionary dreams' was inspired by an attempted coup against Eric Williams, the first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, and explores issues of post-independence...

This production of Gloudon's pantomime was presented as part of the Black Theatre Forum Season. The composer Felix Cross brought a Black British sensibility to the fusion of different styles of music...

This was a programme of traditional dances including rituals such as Candomblé, and dances such as Malculelê, Capoeira and Samba de Roda originated in West Africa and developed in Brazil as forms...

Produced in collaboration with Liverpool Everyman Theatre, the play is a Yoruba re-working of Oedipus the King. As noted in the programme, the director’s choice was based on her desire 'to bring...

The play draws inspiration from a Jamaican burial rite, called Nine Nights, which helps troubled souls to cross over into the spirit world. In this play, the ritual refers to the cathartic experience...