Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners: An Anthology of Afriquia Theatre, 9781350234550
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Black British queer voices rise: radical plays, vital conversations, untold stories.

Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners: An Anthology of Afriquia Theatre

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    440 pages

  • Release Date

    14 December 2022

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Summary

A bold play collection representing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ+) experiences, from Black British perspectives, this anthology contains seven radical plays by Black writers that change the face of theatre in Britain.

With an international reach connecting Africa, the Caribbean and the Diaspora, these plays address themes including same-sex love, sex, homophobia, apartheid, migration and space travel. The collection captures the historical scope and range …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781350234550
ISBN-10:1350234559
Author:Paul Boakye, Mojisola Adebayo, Jacqueline Rudet, Travis Alabanza, Lynette Goddard, Valerie Mason-John, Rikki Beadle-Blair, Ntombizodwa Nyoni
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Methuen Drama
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:440
Release Date:14 December 2022
Weight:680g
Dimensions:254mm x 154mm x 34mm
About The Author

Paul Boakye

Mojisola Adebayo FRSL is a playwright, performer, producer, director, facilitator and Lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She has worked globally in theatre, television, radio, community arts and education, for thirty years, from Antarctica to Zimbabwe. Publications include Mojisola Adebayo: Plays One and Plays Two, The Theatre for Development Handbook and several academic articles.

Lynette Goddard is Professor of Black Theatre and Performance in the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Their book Staging Black Feminisms: Identity, Politics, Performance explored the landscape of Black lesbians in British theatre from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Contemporary Black British Playwrights: Margins to Mainstream historicises and contextualises the production of Black British plays on mainstream stages in the early 2000s. They also edited Modern and Contemporary Black British Playwrights and selected and introduced the plays in The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers.

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