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Based on a Ghanaian folktale, the play tells the story of Anowa, a beautiful girl who leaves behind her family and dancer-priestess destiny, to marry the handsome Kofi. The story reflects a familiar...

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...

The play takes place in a hotel in Trinidad during Carnival. Roy, the hotel keeper chooses to masquerade as Anancy whilst his wealthy white friend, Marduke, masquerades as Death. The characters are...

A folk/rock-fairytale Christmas musical, it takes place, to quote the programme, ‘in and around Strawberry Palace in Strawberry Land in the Land of Fantasia' and then 'the Mongoose Territory and the...

Translated as The Kind Does Not Hang, this was a Yoruba Folk Opera retelling of the story of King Sango and his two rival generals. The performance represented an example of Total Theatre,...

The play juxtaposes historical events from the 1791 Haitian Revolution with the 1985 Broadwater Farm riots in London. The story is told through its central character, Ragamuffin, the warrior, fusing...

The play, adapted by the company, is described in the programme as 'a meditation (…) a combination of dreams, memories and questions' inspired by the island of Barbados, the idea of belonging and the...

This play focuses on the repercussions following the brutal killing of 130 slaves thrown into the sea from the slave ship Zong. The show, produced as part of the celebrations for 2007 Black History...

Described by the author as the journey of Black Americans 'from property to people', the play traces the story of Black Americans at the turn of the last century, in the Hill district of Pittsburg,...

Drawing on Yoruba culture, this version of Aphra Behn’s 1688 novella reinstates the African scenes that were cut in previous drama adaptations and presents for the first time on stage the character,...

The play explores the condition of Black people in the United States after slavery was abolished in 1865. It is based on the Jim Crow laws, a nineteenth-century version of apartheid, which imposed the...

This production explored issues around multiple identities for people with multiple heritages and in particular the social and economic implications for mixed-raced children in Britain. The shadows of...