This was a Zulu adaptation of the story of Macbeth, set in Mfolozi, Zululand. Mirroring the tribal experience of the Zulu people, the show presented no rigid distinctions between drama, music and...

Welcome Msomi

1972

A comedy set in Port of Spain, Trinidad, it features the annual carnival festivity as a central setting for showing inter-racial tensions on the island. The connection between power and masquerade was...

Mustapha Matura

1974

The original story of the tribal rivalries of ancient Scotland, witchcraft and ghosts was set in the Western province of Zambia in the context of African folklore. The production, played by an...

William Shakespeare. Raymond Maclean (choreographer)

1972

The play, called by the author 'a clown show' and intended for a white audience, is a complex study of the relationship between black and white people and of the struggle for dominion and liberation....

Jean Genet

1961

Part of the commemorations for the Bicentenary of the parliamentary abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, this large scale public event included musical input from Juwon Ogungbe (composer),...

2007

This was an ‘epic musical’ exploring the history of Nana Yaa Asantewaa, queen mother of the Asante, and the role she played in the 1900 war against Britain attempting to annex Asante, on the Gold...

Margaret Busby (writer). Music by Danso Abiam. George Dzikunu (choreographer)

2001

The articles referred to the 1979 edition of the Notting Hill Carnival and posed different views on this public artistic event, which in time became the largest outdoor festival in...

1979

Youth Theatre Projects

File includes various draft proposals of the project, guidelines of the Arts4Everyone funding programme, Root n Branch mission statement, funding application to Arts4Everyone, budgets of Young People&...

1996-1997

Youth Theatre Projects

File contains registration forms for workshops, letters of acceptance, notes of meetings, and workshop...

1994-1996

Youth Theatre Projects

File includes project budgets, proposals, planning reports, letters requesting funding support, and leaflets from potential...

1996

1984 - 1985

Television Productions

Correspondence from and to London Weekend Television, Judy Daish Associates, Breckman and Co Chartered Accountants, and Harbottle and Lewis...

1981 - 1986