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The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the present day. In doing so it charts the journey from specialist black theatre companies to the mainstream, including West End success, while providing a cultural and racial barometer for Britain during the last forty years.

It opens with Mustapha Matura''s 1979 play Welcome Home Jacko which in its depiction of a group of young unemployed West Indians was one of the first to explore issues of youth culture, identity and racial and cultural identification. Jackie Kay''s Chiaroscuro examines debates about the politics of black, mixed race and lesbian identities in 1980s Britain, and from the 1990s Winsome Pinnock''s Talking in Tongues engages with the politics of feminism to explore issues of black women''s identity in Britian and Jamaica. From the first decade of the twenty-first century the three plays include Roy Williams'' seminal pub-drama Sing Yer Hearts Out for the Lads, exploring racism and identity against the backdrop of the World Cup; Kwame Kwei-Armah''s National Theatre play of 2004, Fix Up, about black cultural history and progress in modern Britain, and finally Bola Agbage''s terrific 2007 debut, Gone Too Far!, which examines questions of identity and tensions between Africans and Caribbeans living in Britain.

Edited by Lynnette Goddard, this important anthology provides an essential introduction to the last forty years of British black theatre.

The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the present day. In doing so it charts the journey from specialist black theatre companies to the mainstream, including West End success, while providing a cultural and racial barometer for Britain during the last forty years.

It opens with Mustapha Matura''s 1979 play Welcome Home Jacko which in its depiction of a group of young unemployed West Indians was one of the first to explore issues of youth culture, identity and racial and cultural identification. Jackie Kay''s Chiaroscuro examines debates about the politics of black, mixed race and lesbian identities in 1980s Britain, and from the 1990s Winsome Pinnock''s Talking in Tongues engages with the politics of feminism to explore issues of black women''s identity in Britian and Jamaica. From the first decade of the twenty-first century the three plays include Roy Williams'' seminal pub-drama Sing Yer Hearts Out for the Lads, exploring racism and identity against the backdrop of the World Cup; Kwame Kwei-Armah''s National Theatre play of 2004, Fix Up, about black cultural history and progress in modern Britain, and finally Bola Agbage''s terrific 2007 debut, Gone Too Far!, which examines questions of identity and tensions between Africans and Caribbeans living in Britain.

Edited by Lynnette Goddard, this important anthology provides an essential introduction to the last forty years of British black theatre.

A major BBC Radio series charting the history of post-war Britain through the lives of Hope Kiffin, Eunice Lamming and Gloria de Soto, bound forever by one moment in 1946.London, 1946. Struggling to cope with the idea of raising her daughter in a hostile environment, African-Caribbean nurse Hope makes the difficult decision to entrust her precious baby to her best friend, Eunice, to take back home to Antigua. But their plan goes disastrously wrong.In the decades that follow, all of them will witness - and play a part in - the seismic changes rocking the British Isles, as the old establishment crumbles, immigration builds and the country adjusts to the realities of a post-war, post-colonial future.This compelling series interweaves brilliant intimate domestic stories, told from multiple perspectives, that together illuminate the emergence of modern Britain. Written by leading Black playwrights Roy Williams, Rex Obano and Winsome Pinnock, it stars Danielle Vitalis as Hope, Shiloh Coke as Eunice/Faith and Pippa Bennett-Warner as Gloria, with a full cast including Martins Imhangbe, Stefan Adegbola, Emma Handy and Hasan Dixon.Production creditsWritten by Roy Williams, Rex Obano and Winsome PinnockMusical Director: Peter RingroseProduced and directed by Mary Peate and Jessica DromgooleCastJim - Martins ImhangbeHope - Danielle VitalisEunice/Faith - Shiloh CokeGloria - Pippa Bennett-WarnerClement/Waiter - Stefan AdegbolaWaitress/Ida/Matron/Ag - Emma HandyTrevor - Gary BeadleNeville - Chris JackOlubuki - Rex ObanoMartina - Clare PerkinsGerard/Dennis/Musician - Hasan DixonStephens/Johnnie/Florist - Ian Dunnett JnrPost Mistress/Millie - Jane WhittenshawSallow/Neighbour - Roger RingroseLorraine - Lizzy WattsBert - Ben CroweCaleb - Dermot DalyParent - Cecilia Appiah© 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd(p) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd