This was an ‘epic musical’ exploring the history of Nana Yaa Asantewaa, queen mother of the Asante, and the role she played in the 1900 war against Britain attempting to annex Asante, on the Gold...

This was a Zulu adaptation of the story of Macbeth, set in Mfolozi, Zululand. Mirroring the tribal experience of the Zulu people, the show presented no rigid distinctions between drama, music and...

This musical drama is a reworking of Oroonoko emphasising liberty as a quintessential English value. A reviewer of the time described the opera as 'a positively poor composition, yet compared with...

The play is another adaptation for the stage of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novella which testifies to the interest in the story and its place in the popular imagination well after the abolition of...

The play is a classic study of the black revolutionary leader Toussaint L’Ouverture, who in 1791 led the Haitian revolution, which was triggered by the French Revolution and became the only truly...

The Slave is a 'ritual drama' in the form of a fable in which a debate takes place around the heritage of slavery and the hatred it generates. Its central character, Walker is an African American man...

The play spotlights Afro-Brazilian culture by reconstructing the true story of Zumbi, an African slave living in Brazil, who was killed by the Portuguese in 1695 for defending his village. The story...

The play explores Rastafarian culture in Britain in an innovative and provocative way through the story of four young Rastafarians. Their ideals are tested by an older member of the group, Jacko, who...