Tag: black history
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Beneatha’s Place, Young Vic
Wednesday 5th July 2023
reviewBritish premiere by this venue’s supremo is thrillingly provocative but also fla…
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About Three Sisters
Friday 13th January 2023
blogEarlier in the week, I enjoyed a rainy afternoon at home by watching Inua Ellis’…
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James Baldwin on history
Friday 30th September 2022
blogQuote of the day: “History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely someth…
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Moreno, Theatre 503
Saturday 2nd April 2022
reviewAward-winning American play about sport and anti-racist protest is beautifully c…
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Stephen Bourne on Laurence Olivier’s Othello
Thursday 28th October 2021
blogQuote of the day: “My friend Sonia and I shared many things, including our sense…
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Sean Mayes and Sarah K Whitfield on black British musicals
Sunday 12th September 2021
blogQuote of the day: “This book should not be relevant.”
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Rockets and Blue Lights, National Theatre
Thursday 2nd September 2021
reviewPoetic play about enslaved peoples and Victorian painter JMW Turner has strong m…
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Why does blackface still exist?
Monday 22nd March 2021
blogThis is just one of the urgent questions that Ayanna Thompson tackles head on in…
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Pablo Fanque’s afterlife
Tuesday 29th December 2020
blogMy addiction to BBC Radio 4 occasionally results in a welcome surprise.
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