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Rum an' Coca Cola 1976

Rum an' Coca Cola

By Mustapha Matura

The Creator, his glory days as a once feted calypso singer long gone, lives with his protégée Bird i...

Cast Size: 2

Sherry and Wine 1976

Sherry and Wine

By Jimi Rand

Cast Size: 6

Black Slaves - White Chains 1975

Black Slaves - White Chains

By Mustapha Matura

A short piece written as an allegorical political fable, it tells the story of ‘three enchaine...

Cast Size: 5

Death of a Black Man, The 1975

Death of a Black Man, The

By Alfred Fagon

Cast Size: 3

School's Out 1975

School's Out

By Trevor Rhone

The play follows new idealistic headteacher Russ Dacres’ doomed efforts to turn the school int...

Cast Size: Unknown

Swamp Dweller's, The 1975

Swamp Dweller's, The

By Wole Soyinka

In an agricultural village on the Niger Delta, Alu and Makuri await the return of their sons from th...

Cast Size: 8

Anansi and the Strawberry Queen 1974

Anansi and the Strawberry Queen

By Manley Young

A folk/rock-fairytale Christmas musical, it takes place, to quote the programme, ‘in and around Stra...

Cast Size: Unknown

Body and Soul 1974

Body and Soul

By T Bone Wilson

Cast Size: Unknown

Femmes Noires, Les 1974

Femmes Noires, Les

By Edgar Nkosi White

The play explores the tribulations of black women in New York and the loneliness of the human condit...

Cast Size: 24

Jero's Metamorphosis 1974

Jero's Metamorphosis

By Wole Soyinka

The second of Wole Soyinka’s Jero plays, Jero’s Metamorphosis is the story of the profit minded prop...

Cast Size: 18