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Interviews

Explore a collection of interviews with celebrated and award-winning playwrights.

Explore our unique set of interviews with writers like Mustapha Matura, Mojisola Adebayo and more. Find out more about their lives, their work and what led them to start writing.

Mojisola Adebayo

Mojisola Adebayo on Desert Boy

Mojisola Adebayo talks about her play Desert Boy, which was first performed at The Albany in 2010.

Mojisola Adebayo on Muhammad Ali and Me

Mojisola Adebayo talks about her play Muhammed Ali and Me, first performed at Ovalhouse Theatre in 2008.

Mojisola Adebayo on Moj of the Antarctic

Watch playwright, director, teacher, actor and producer, Mojisola Adebayo, talk about her lauded play Moj of the Antarctic.

Oladipo Agboluaje

Oladipo Adboluaje on The Estate and Iya-Ile

Oladipo Agboluaje discusses his plays The Estate and Iya-Ile, The First Wife for the Black Plays Archive.

Oladipo Adboluaje on The Hounding of David Oluwale

Oladipo Agboluaje talks about his play The Hounding of David Oluwale, first performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2009.

Michael Buffong

Michael Buffong on The Posse

Watch Michael Buffong, discuss his involvement in the variety performance group The Posse, which emerged from Theatre Royal Stratford East.

Michael Buffong Biography

Artistic Director of Talawa Theatre Company Michael Buffong talks about his career and his experience of working as a Black British theatre director.

Mustapha Matura

Mustapha Matura Biography

Watch the award-winning playwright Mustapha Matura discuss his life, career and works.

Mustapha Matura on The Coup

Mustapha Matura talks about his play The Coup, first performed in the Cottesloe Theatre in 1991.

Roy Williams

Clint Dyer and Roy Williams on Death of England

Watch Roy Williams and director Clint Dyer, discuss their play Death of England. The play premiered at the National’s Dorfman Theatre in 2020.

Roy Williams on The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Roy Williams talks about his play The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner, first performed at the York Theatre Royal in 2012.

Roy Williams on Sucker Punch

Roy Williams talks about his play, Sucker Punch, first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 2010.

Roy Williams on Days of Significance

Roy Williams talks about his play Days of Significance, first performed at the Swan Theatre, 2007.

Roy Williams on Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads

Roy Williams talks about his play Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads, first performed at the Cottesloe Theatre in 2002.

The interviews:

Mojisola Adebayo

 

Oladipo Agboluaje

 

Michael Buffong

Mustapha Matura

 

Roy Williams

Exploring the Black Plays Archive

 

Inua Ellams’ Barber Shop Chronicles and Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum Dreams

Janice Okoh’s Egusi Soup and Jackie Kay’s Chiaroscuro

Una Marson’s London Calling and Doña Daley’s Weathering the Storm

debbie tucker green’s random and Roy Williams’ Fallout

Winsome and Ola give advice to writers

Natasha Gordon on her play Nine Night

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