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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... ...

The play is a dramatic adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, which came out in numerous editions and proliferated on the stage,... ...

The play was performed at the time when British Navy action against slavers was at its height following the abolition of the transatlantic... ...

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... ...

This tragi-comedy, based on the novella by Aphra Behn, was first performed in 1695. Oroonoko, an African prince sold into slavery, falls in... ...

This melodrama is based on the story of the legendary Jack Mansong, an escaped Jamaican slave, who in 1780 organised a feared gang of... ...

This musical drama is a reworking of Oroonoko emphasising liberty as a quintessential English value. A reviewer of the time described the... ...

A despondent Black slave who is about to commit suicide is transformed by magic into Harlequin and marries the White planter master’s... ...

The production explored issues around Black identity and was set during Notting Hill Carnival. It made use of various forms of Black music... ...

This musical, which later transferred to the West End, explored the life of Louis Jordan and other famous musicians of the 1940s and 1950s,... ...

This musical play was a journey through Black history, presented in seven tableaux each with a main theme expressed through dance and... ...