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Liberated Woman, A 1970

Liberated Woman, A

By Barry Reckord

Cast Size: Unknown

My Enemy 1970

My Enemy

By Mustapha Matura

My Enemy shows the attempts of a white MP to verbally destroy a Black Power leader who is having an...

Cast Size: 2

Party 1970

Party

By Mustapha Matura

Cast Size: 9

Don't Gas the Blacks 1969

Don't Gas the Blacks

By Barry Reckord

Cast Size: 3

Sit Down, Banna 1968

Sit Down, Banna

By Norman Beaton

Cast Size: 19

Strong Breed, The 1968

Strong Breed, The

By Wole Soyinka

Eman, a teacher but village outsider, ignores pleas to leave on the eve of the New Year, the night w...

Cast Size: Unknown

Lion and the Jewel, The 1966

Lion and the Jewel, The

By Wole Soyinka

In Ilujinle, a Yoruba village in the Ibadan Kingdom, the ageing Bale has fathered 63 children throug...

Cast Size: 17

Trials of Brother Jero, The 1966

Trials of Brother Jero, The

By Wole Soyinka

Self-styled prophet and con artist Brother Jero preaches to a diminishing congregation of “customers...

Cast Size: Unknown

Dance Bongo 1965

Dance Bongo

By Errol Hill

A fantasy in one act. A stranger arrives to a village settlement looking for a dead or dying man. Th...

Cast Size: Unknown

Jack of Spades 1965

Jack of Spades

By Norman Beaton

Written for the Commonwealth Arts Festival, Jack of Spades courted controversy while touching direct...

Cast Size: Unknown