Hidden Gems Volume II: Contemporary Black British Plays

Australian born Deirdre Osborne is a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has interviewed and published extensively on the work of Black British writers (such as Kwame Kwei-Armah, Roy Williams, Lemn Sissay, SuAndi, debbie tucker green, Andrea Levy, Valerie Mason-John and Mojisola Adebayo) and always insists upon inclusion of the field in any curricula to which she contributes. A second anthology of edited plays by Black playwrights, Hidden Gems will be published by Oberon.

• "INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME II Deirdre Osborne (Goldsmiths, University of London) A BITTER HERB Shady Adoptions: the One-way Traffic of Children in Care Fiona Peters (Goldsmiths, University of London) A Bitter Herb by Kwame Kwei-Armah THE FAR SIDE Laying Ghosts to Rest Winsome Pinnock (Kingston University) The Far Side by Courttia Newland IDENTITY Revealing the Revolution: a Few Home Truths Chris Searle (University of Manchester) Identity by Paul Anthony Morris URBAN AFRO SAXONS Putting it Together: An interview with Kofi Agyemang and Patricia Elcock ed. Deirdre Osborne (Goldsmiths, University of London) Urban Afro Saxons by Kofi Agyemang and Patricia Elcock THE LIBRETTO OF MARY SEACOLE SuAndi's Mary Seacole: A Hybrid Cartography in Libretto Mina Karavanta (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens) The Libretto of Mary Seacole by SuAndi ABSOLUTION 'The Waltz Gone Mad: the Poetics of Departure and Arrival in Absolution Imanie Wilson Absolution by Malika Booker APPENDIX I Will Not Put Another Dead Young Black Man on Stage Patricia Cumper References and Bibliography of Indicative Critical Studies