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Featured Production The Pirate Princess
The Pirate Princess is set aboard a pirate ship where the notorious John Rackman, alias Calico Jack, leads a band of recalcitrants in his plunder of merchant ships and towns.
Featured Company Riverside Studios
Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, West London has staged a number of productions and premieres of work by African, Caribbean, and black British playwrights, such as Tunde Ikoli’s Scrape off the Black in 1980.
Featured Playwright Biyi Bandele
Nigerian –born, London-based writer Biyi Bandele is an award winning- playwrightnovelist and poet. Bandele’s plays have been seen at the Royal Court Theatre, Gate Theatre, and at the Barbican.
Featured Company Theatre of Black Women
Theatre of Black Women formed in 1982 by Bernadine Evaristo, Patricia St. Hilaire, and Paulette Randall was the first black women’s theatre company in the U.K.