Magazines: Total Theatre - five issues (1995 - 1997). placeholder image

Volume 7 - issue 1: Manipulating the Material, Puppets, Objects, Animations, Virtual Reality, Challenging the Convention: the Dynamic of the Audience - Actor Relationship, Physical Film, Hello Hollywood, Bye-Bye Theatre; volume 7 - issue 2: Investigating Invention, the Body, Language, Definition and Exploration, Lobbying, Innovation, Funding, Europe, In India, Across the Internet, In prison with Jim Morrison; volume 9 - issue 1: Delectable Bodies, Critical Debate, In The Beginning Was the World, Physical Education, Interview: The People Show; Performance Diary: Shakespeare; Stilts and Sticky Tape; Festival Raising the Voice of Silence; Understanding Contracts; volume 9 - issue 2: The First National Street Arts Meeting, Carnival Caravan, Street Arts Brouhaha International, The Natural Theatre Company, Festival Contact List, Wallace and Gromit, DV8 Physical Theatre, Theatre de Complicite, Indian Independents, Etienne Decroux, Commissioning the Future, Theatre-On-Line, volume 9 - issue 3: Television, Shooting Theatre, Surfing the Imagination, Theatre and Martial Arts, Institute of Contemporary Clowning, Mime in a French Town, The Place Theatre, Seminar on Physical Theatre.

Dictionary. placeholder image

The Oxford paperback dictionary.

Pocket Thesaurus. placeholder image

The Hamlyn Pocket Theasaurus of English Words.

Newspapers: foreign press from the West Indies. Press cuttings, articles include World War II and Carnival. placeholder image

Foreign Newspapers: Trinidad and Tobago Mirror, Trinidad newspaper The Bomb, The Guardian, Britain's First Day of War (1939 Daily Mirror - original), The War Papers, Carnival souvenir 1987. No particular subject classification given.

Copy of the first page of the play programme listing actors Catherine Terris, Ben Onwukwe, Carole Harrison, Stephen Persaud and director Alby James. The play was part of the Black Theater Season 1985.

Black Theatre Season 1983 and 1987; press cuttings (copies). placeholder image

Photocopies of press reviews related to various plays which were part of the festival. They were collected from various newspaper sources. Among the plays reviewed are Outlaw by Michael Abbensetts, Two Can Play by Trevor Rhone, Remembrance by Derek Walcott, and they present actors Jimmy Findley, Corinne Skinner-Carter and director Carmen Munroe.

Rakshasa's Ring by Visikhadatta: press cuttings (copies). placeholder image

Photocopies of press reviews related to the plays part of the Black Theatre Season 1986. They were collected from various newspaper sources. Enclosed are a background of the play along with actor biographies and cast details.

Photocopies of press reviews collected from various newspaper sources along with a flyer of the double bill. Both of the double bill plays were directed by Renu Setna. They present the plays Song of Death by Tewfik Al-Hakim and Lazarus and his Beloved by Kahlil Gibran. A response letter from Renu Setna confirming the relevance of a play written by the Egyptian playwright as part of a festival celebrating Black Theatre. Setna also addresses other political and cultural issues re-questioning the definition of (Black) British Theatre.

Beef, No Chicken: copies of press cuttings related to Derek Walcott's play. placeholder image

Photocopies of press reviews collected from various newspaper sources along with a biography on playwright Derek Walcott.

Copies of press cuttings related to British and international Black Theatre. placeholder image

Photocopies of press reviews collected from various newspaper sources. They attest of the numerous activities related to Black Theatre and present national and international artists, venues and productions as early as 1974. PRODUCTIONS include: For Coloured Girl Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozanke Shanke; A Temporary Rupture by Michael J. Ellis; No Good Friday by Athol Fugard; The Jolly Green Soldier and Sherry and Wine by Jimi Rand; The Bully by Horace James; Mrs Mouse, Are you Within? by Frank Marcus; The Limbo by Robert Drain; Black Man's Country by Desmond Forristal; Strange Fruit by Caryl Phillips; The Gingerbread Man by David Wood; Show Boat by Jerome Kern, Fishing by Paulette Randell, Where There is Darkness by Caryl Phillips; Some Kind of Hero by Les Smith; Playboy of the Western World by J. M. Synge; A Penny Steps by Tony Dennis; Othello. COUNTRIES include North America, Sri Lanka. ACTORS include Vicky Licorish, Mustapha Matura, Jim Findley, The Boot Dance by Edgar White, Rudy Davies, Mona Hammond, Hugh Quarshie from Guyana, Joy Lemoine, Lee Davies (also known as Ruddy L. Davis) from Jamaica, Merdelle Jordine, Mona Hayes, Gladys Taylor, Nina Baden-Semper. VENUES include The Theatre Royal in Bristol, BBC TV programme The Black Safari about the journey of four explorers travelling deep into the heart of British interior - with Merdel Jordine, Bloke Modisane, Yemi Ajibade. OTHER articles include The Lack of Black Roles in Britain by Victoria McKee, Black Ordeal in Britain on Lear Model (on the play Black Lear by Barrie Keefe). Also contains articles related to the 1983 Black Theatre Season.

Life Supported: press pack with article on the play Nevis Mountain Dew by Steve Carter, part of the Season programme along with documentation on sponsoring the festival run by the organisation. placeholder image

Photocopies (extract) of the Black Theatre Season programme 1983. Marketing correspondence inviting sponsors to support the Season Gala Night. Details of the publicity coverage and newspapers involved in marketing the festival.