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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

Black By Night 1972

Black By Night

By Jamal Ali

Cast Size: Unknown

Raas 1972

Raas

By Robert Lamb

A family drama. It explores sketchily the structure of a West Indian family – dominant grandmother,...

Cast Size: 3

Temba 1972

Temba

By Alton Kumalo

Cast Size: Unknown

As Time Goes By 1971

As Time Goes By

By Mustapha Matura

Mustapha Matura’s first full-length play, As Time Goes By won the George Devine and John Whiting awa...

Cast Size: 11

Dialogue 1970

Dialogue

By Mustapha Matura

An episode, which obliquely shows the dangers for black people of succumbing to society’s mad...

Cast Size: 3