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Nice 1973

Nice

By Mustapha Matura

A monologue about a “nice” West Indian man and his descent into a postcolonial cynicism...

Cast Size: 1

Ode To Charlie Parker 1973

Ode To Charlie Parker

By Edgar Nkosi White

Cast Size: Unknown

Offering For Nightworld 1973

Offering For Nightworld

By Edgar Nkosi White

Cast Size: Unknown

Sizwe Bansi is Dead 1973

Sizwe Bansi is Dead

By Athol Fugard , John Kani , Winston Ntshona

Sizwe Bansi is Dead written collaboratively with South African actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona...

Cast Size: 2

Sweet Talk 1973

Sweet Talk

By Michael Abbensetts

Set in a single room whose walls define its characters’ lives, Sweet Talk, the most widely per...

Cast Size: 6

The Bacchae 1973

The Bacchae

By Wole Soyinka

On the eve of the annual feast of Eleusis, held to cleanse Thebes of what is rotten and old and to u...

Cast Size: 28

Voices of the Living Dead 1973

Voices of the Living Dead

By Linton Kwesi Johnson

Cast Size: Unknown

11 Josephine House 1972

11 Josephine House

By Alfred Fagon

A black family are trying to adjust to the temptations of English Life; a black preacher falls from...

Cast Size: 6

Anansi and Brer Englishman 1972

Anansi and Brer Englishman

By Manley Young

Presented as ‘the first West Indian-English pantomime’, this production by Dark and Ligh...
Bakerloo Line 1972

Bakerloo Line

By Mustapha Matura

A black man meets a white woman at a liberal party in London.

Cast Size: 4