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The play is set in Tobago in the Caribbean and explores the relationship between the master and the servant through a failed middle aged English actor, who runs a guest house on the island, and his...

A short piece written as an allegorical political fable, it tells the story of 'three enchained slaves' and their encounter with a white woman, a priest and a judge to portray the impositions and...

The show programme included a series of events featuring music, dance and drama to explore issues around black liberation 'from unsophisticated bondage to a sophisticated...

This was a 'historical & cultural pageant' presented by the West Indian Students Centre Folk Group exploring the experience of slavery in the West Indies through songs, poetry and...

Starring Thomas Baptiste in the role of Jones, the performance was set on a West Indian island where, to quote the programme 'the form of native government is, for the time being, an Empire.' The play...

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 show, presented by the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, explored the relationship between a Black man and a White woman in the American South of the 1950s, where memories of slavery impinged...

This is one of the choreographies created for the company by its choreographer Eddy Thomas and is based on a tragic Jamaican legend which tells the story of Liza, a house slave, and Ako, a slave boy...

Set in a West Indian Island, the play focuses on a strike by native sugar workers against the white plantation owner. The description of the conditions of work on the island takes a radical political...

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 play is set on a West Indian island ruled by the Emperor Brutus Jones and traces his journey back to Africa after the rebellion of his subjects. Lost in the forest, the Emperor is faced by...

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...