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Mercy by Gloria Hamilton (extract)
Hamilton was Artistic Director of Umoja Theatre Company and wrote several of their plays including Success or Failure and In Nobody’s Backyard. Originally produced by the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs Young Writers’ Group in 1983, Mercy is set in Grenada.
Vigilantes by Farrukh Dhondy
Originally produced by Asian Cooperative Theatre in 1985, Vigilantes is set in East London and follows the journey of a young Bangladeshi journalist Hasna, who is trying to facilitate access for a BBC TV documentary crew, making a film about young people, to the community. Controversial at the time for Dhondy’s portrayal of the community and his stance that it is ‘only by looking critically at ourselves that you can advance theatre’.
One of Us by Jacqui Shapiro and Meera Syal
Written by Shapiro from improvisations by Meera Syal, this one-woman show went to the National Student Drama festival in 1983 and was later toured to audiences of young people by Red Ladder theatre in 1988 and was key in launching Syal’s career. It traced ‘Nishi’s life as she grappled with her expectations and the realities of the world around her.’
Glory! by Felix Cross
Produced by Black theatre company Temba in 1991, this musical won the LWT Plays on Stage Award and was key in launching Adjoa Andoh’s career, the play explore sexual abuse and religious repression against the background of Trinidad and Tobago’s 1930s struggle to throw off the paternalistic shackles of British colonial rule.
Madhuri I Love You by Parminder Sekhon
Originally performed as a solo piece by Sekhon herself, the play is about a young Indian teenage girl who writes to Bollywood actress and star Madhuri Dixit. It featured as part of the 2000 Watermans Art Centre festival of film, photography, dance and performance Sweet Like Burfi, a celebration of South Asian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered art.
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Bhangra Girls by Nandita Ghose
Slipping Into Darkness by Jamal Ali
Take Back What’s Yours or God’ Second in Command by Jacqueline Rudet
The Carver Chair by Tyrone Huggins
Papa was a Bus Driver by Parv Bancil
Reserve Plays if time allows…
TBC by Tunde Ikoli (18th July)
Kirti, Sona and Ba by Jyoti Patel and Jezz Simons (25th July)