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Hard Time Pressure 1980

Hard Time Pressure

By Michael McMillan

Grappling with unemployment, police brutality, the ‘SUS’ laws, identity and sexual politics 18 year...

Cast Size: 20

Horses Of The Night 1980

Horses Of The Night

By Patricia Cumper

Horses of the Night draws heavily on the language and themes of Christpoher Marlowe’s Dr Faust...

Cast Size: 7

Samba 1980

Samba

By Michael Abbensetts

Samba tells the story of Alfredo Lamas, a 1950s former Samba King, now running a mini-cab firm. Once...

Cast Size: 5

School's Out 1980

School's Out

By Trix Worrell

Cast Size: Unknown

Scrape off the Black 1980

Scrape off the Black

By Tunde Ikoli

London’s East End in 1973. Trevor organises a surprise party on the release of his brother And...

Cast Size: 4

Strange Fruit 1980

Strange Fruit

By Caryl Phillips

A study of a black family caught between two cultures.

Cast Size: 5

Gather in Your Name 1979

Gather in Your Name

By Don Kinch

Cast Size: 11

Independence 1979

Independence

By Mustapha Matura

  Listen to an extract of the play

Cast Size: 6

Mister Biko 1979

Mister Biko

By Alton Kumalo , Peter Rodda

A play about about South African Apartheid and the murder of Steve Biko, who was killed in 1977.

Cast Size: 3

Teresa 1979

Teresa

By Alton Kumalo

Alton Kumalo’s main protagonist, Teresa, finds herself trapped between the conflicting culture...

Cast Size: 3