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Black Theatre Histories

Black Theatre Histories

FYFFI: Fifty Years of the Fight for Inclusion

Celebrating the struggle for change in theatre, what’s been gained, what remains to be achieved through readings, workshops, guided walks, exhibitions, publications and symposia.

We start with 50 years since the first Women’s Theatre Festival in UK, 1973-74 ...

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Black Theatre Histories

Black Theatre Histories

Black Theatre Histories

Unfinished Histories offers resources
on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic
theatre histories

Unfinished Histories offers resources
on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic
theatre histories

Unfinished Histories offers resources
on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic
theatre histories

Future Events

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Black Theatre Histories

Black Theatre Histories

Celebrating LGBTQ+ Theatre Histories

Unfinished Histories offers resources
on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic
theatre histories

Unfinished Histories offers resources
on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic
theatre histories

Unfinished Histories created an exhibition of posters, Acting Out, and hosts staged readings, discussions and interviews revisiting this vital history

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Illustrated Talks,

Illustrated Talks,

Workshops,

Workshops,

Workshops,

Discussions,

Discussions,

Discussions,

and Readings

and Readings

and Readings

Tours,

Tours,

Tours,

Future Events

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Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Exhibitions

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Heritage Specialists

Unfinished Histories are specialists in theatre heritage projects including oral history, archive development, exhibitions and more.

Future Events

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Black Theatre Histories

Black Theatre Histories

6 NOV - 14 DEC 2025

RADICAL REDISCOVERY:
HOMOSEXUAL ACTS and BEYOND
Exhibition and Events
at London Performance Studios

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FYFFI

A 3-year festival celebrating women’s, LGBTQ+ and global majority theatre

Upcoming events

FYFFI – Radical Rediscovery II

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Welcome to Unfinished Histories

Recording and celebrating the history of Alternative Theatre in the 1960s, 70s and 80s through interviews and the collecting of archive material.

Physical Archive

We are delighted that the Unfinished Histories archive is now lodged within the Bishopsgate Institute Archive. You can see what is available for viewing there via their Online Catalogue. Meanwhile if you wish to see or hear any of our collection please contact us to arrange a viewing.

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In solidarity

In the spirit of that unfinished radical activist history and as an activist archive, Unfinished Histories declares solidarity with those artists and activists working for justice and change today in a time of climate crisis, social injustice and racial inequality. We have created a page of links to current activist organisations. If you have information to add about a project, please email us.

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