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