Essays and Articles

The following essays and articles come from a variety of sources, including texts by leading academics and practitioners and featured essays and interviews within National Theatre programmes. These essays and articles highlight playwrights within the Black Plays Archive and their work, production history, and explorations of style and genre within both historical and contemporary Black British theatre.

Leni Goddard, Cultural Diversity and Black British Playwriting on the Mainstream 2000-2012

Black British Plays Post World War II-1970s by Professor Colin Chambers

Critical Responses to African Theatre: Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel at the Royal Court Theatre, London, December 1966 by Professor Martin Banham

Tracing Black America in black British theatre from the 1970s By Michael Pearce

History Repeating Itself By Raoul Pantin

Passing Down the Generations: Statement of Regret, interview with Dr Joy DeGruy Leary

Nigerian Colonial History by Shola Adenekan

On the History of Black Philosophy: Dr Robert Beckford and Dr William (Lez) Henry in conversation with Kwame Kwei-Armah

I Love What I Do by Roy Williams

A View of The Island by Peter Brook

Kani, Ntshona and Fugard by Donald Woods