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  • 11 Josephine House
    A black family are trying to adjust to the temptations of English Life; a black preacher falls from grace.
  • 11 Josephine House
  • 13 Mics
  • 14th Tale, The
    The 14th Tale is a free-flowing narrative that tells the hilarious exploits of a natural born mischief growing from the clay streets of...
  • 2009
  • 24%
  • 35 cents
    It is election time in Jamaica and the campaign has been completely overwhelmed by extreme apathy and disillusionment. Fatigued by the...
  • 48-98
    48-98 is a multimedia stage drama which mixes documentary footage with domestic conflict.
  • 65 With a Bullet
  • 93.2 FM
    Coach and Bossman are a dynamic duo tearing up the airwaves at Borough FM. Together they have become radio heroes, but someone's getting...
  • A Long Way From Home
  • a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-Noun)
  • A Season in the Congo
    A Season in the Congo charts the rise and fall of the Congolese political leader Patrice Lumumba during the transformation of the...
  • Abena's Stupidest Mistake
    Abena is an average 8 year old child. Mischief and mayhem are her hobbies, and she can't help poking her nose into people's business. On...
  • Abolition
    The play explores the history of the transatlantic slave trade by examining the political set-up in Britain and the practice among...
  • Absolute Beginners
  • Absolute Beginners
    Teenagers are blowing away the cobwebs of post-war life - the absolute beginners are creating the world anew. A Vespa-riding young...
  • Absolution
    In Absolution a woman leaves the Caribbean, in the postwar migration stream, idealistic and full of hope, to start a new life in England....
  • Abyssinia
    Queen Victoria and Albert had numerous offspring, but none of them had a more profound effect on the Royal family than their black...
  • Adam's Dream
    Directed by Malcolm Frederick this surreal comedy is set in Harlem and tells the story of Adam, an African American lawyer, who loses his...
  • Adventures of Snow Black and Rose Red, The
  • Adventures of Snow Black And Rose Red, The
    This is a modern fairy tale fusing African, Asian, and European myth with urban city life. Two female friends are trapped in the web of...
  • Advice for the Young at Heart
    It's 2011 and 1958: London is rioting. Candice is ordred by her gang-leading boyfriend to lure Clint into a honeytrap. Haunted by her...
  • Aeroplane Man
  • Afamako - The Workhorse
  • African Cargo, An
    In 1781 the slave ship Zong, overlade with captured Africans, is heading to Jamaica but loses its way in the Caribbean Sea. With...
  • After Independence
    Guy and Kathleen grow their crops, raise their daughter, and pay their taxes. But Africa is changing, country by country. White farmers...
  • After Windrush
    Michael McMillan's After Windrush presents a rewriting of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
  • Aftertaste Of Sherry, An
    The production takes the form of two one-act plays. They both reflect on the lives and times of four black women. The first play ...
  • Aisha
    UK-born 17-year-old Aisha is secretly sold into marriage in Nigeria. She is purchased from her parents by a 51-year-old man who keeps her...
  • Alma
  • Alterations
    Alterations is a comedy set in a tailor's shop, inspired by a real visit to a small room off Carnaby Street where two black tailors had...
  • Alterations
  • Amazing Birthday, The
    In Birthday Land, Jack's birthday 'Six' is very excited and can't wait for his special day - but things start to go wrong. Slowly, his...
  • Amongst the Reeds
    Two friends scratch out a living on the margins of society. Oni and Gillian have made their home in a disused office block, finding ever...
  • An Unfinished Man
  • Anansi and Brer Englishman
  • Anansi and the Magic Mirror
    When Anansi enters the world of Nana Sus's magic shop and steals the magic mirror from under the nose of the young gril Adojah, he...
  • Anansi and the Strawberry Queen
  • Anansi Come Back
  • Anansi Trades Places
    Talawa reawaken the much loved African and Caribbean character of Anansi for his latest adventure. Legendary spider Anansi takes an...
  • Anansi's Royal Quest
  • Angel House
    Angel House focuses on the lives of two brothers, Franklin and Stephen, and the community of Angel House, a housing estate in west London.
  • Angel House
  • Anne Marie
  • Another Biafra
  • Another Tuesday
  • Another Tuesday
  • Antigone
    Sophocles's tragedy transposed to an urban gangland setting
  • Antigone
    A woman defies her uncle, the King, to bury her dead brother.
  • Anything You Can Do
  • Arawak Gold
    Arawak Gold explores the arrival of Christopher Columbus to Americas from the perspective of the Arawak Indians.
  • Armed and Dangerous
    Eight of the country's top black actors give a satirical view of modern black British life in sketches, dance and ensemble routines. They...
  • As Time Goes By
    Mustapha Matura’s first full-length play, As Time Goes By won the George Devine and John Whiting awards in 1971. A satirical comedy about...
  • Asylum
  • At The Gates of Gaza
    Stranded in the battlefields of the Holy Land during the Great War, a battalion of West Indian volunteers fight for the Empire, the King...
  • At What A Price
    The play, a comedy, concerns the fate of a young Jamaican woman who moves from the countryside into the city of Kingston to work as a...
  • Avalanche
  • Ave Afrika
    Ave Afrika focuses on the evolution of Ave Lucas. A successful business woman, winning the battles of a sometimes obstructive corporate...
  • Ayo and Ade's Big London Safari
  • Ayo and Ade's Big London Safari
    Ade takes Ayo on the London Eye one of the safest rides in Blankland. It becomes apparent that Ade is corrupt and his cruel view of life...
  • B is for Black
    B IS FOR BLACK follows the rise, then fall from grace of Ben Nelson. A Black man who attended Oxford, Ben eagerly begins his first day at...
  • B-Like Water
  • Baba and the Tree of Life
    The Life and Times of the African drummer/musician/teacher Babatunde Olatunji, who introduced the concept of polyrhythms to American...
  • Babel Junctions
    A play that explores how culture, religion and faith shape our 21st century perceptions and experience. When Hackney district nurse...
  • Baby Girl
  • Baby Girl
    Kelle is 13 and still a virgin. And if her best friend Danielle knows, then the whole school knows. But will sleeping with the wide-boy...
  • Back Street Mammy
    Back Street Mammy explores the consequences of a one night stand.
  • Backslider
  • Backslider, Part Two (Oh Happy Days)
  • Bakerloo Line
    A black man meets a white woman at a liberal party in London.
  • Barber Shop Chronicles
    Explores themes of black masculinity
  • Barber Shop Chronicles (UK Tour)
  • Barbershop, The
  • Bashment
    Bashment explores the controversy around dancehall music and the consequences of homophobic lyrics.
  • Basil and Beattie
  • Basil and Beattie
    Basil and Beattie are finding the golden years of their lives somewhat tarnished, locked together with only physical infirmity and mental...
  • Basin
  • Batai (Carnival Show)
    Carnival Show
  • Battie - Man Blues
  • Beach, The
    Performed at the tricycle theatre as a one day scratch performance.
  • Bear Hug
    Two middle-class parents try to raise their child Michael, who has turned into a bear. A startling absurdist parable about modern...
  • Beatification of Area Boy, The
  • Beauty and Babel the Beast
  • Beef, No Chicken
  • Beef, No Chicken
    Set in Trinidad, Beef No Chicken is a tragicomedy about a small town facing the encroachment of a six-lane highway.
  • Belong
  • Beyond the 'A' Penny Steps
  • Big Nose
    Based on Rostand's classic story of Cyrano de Bergerac and set in the Eastern Caribbean in 1957, the show follows the fortunes of Clovis...
  • Big Nose
  • Bilad al-Sudan
    Bilad al-Sudan focuses on two refugees from two differing clans now living in a government refugee camp in Darfur, with two very...
  • Bitches
    This drama follows two young female vloggers talking racial politics and popular culture in an unforgiving online world. Exploring...
  • Bitter 'n Twisted The Ten Commandments of Black Love
    Jamaicans Courtney and Bibby marry in 1966, but one year later they both die in a jealous crime of passion. To save their souls from...
  • Bitter Herb, A
  • Bitter Herb, A
    Valerie MacKenna is a successful middle-class businesswoman, who lives with her husband, Willard, son Peter and adopted white daughter...
  • Bitter Milk
  • Black
  • Black Ball Game
  • Black By Night
  • Black Crows
    Linda Brogan's Black Crows creates a dark and vivid world of love, jealousy and hunger in 1970s Manchester.
  • Black Crows
  • Black Heroes in the Hall of Fame
  • Black Jacobins, The
  • Black Men Walking
    A group of black men go on their monthly hike together.
  • Black Poppies
  • Black Sheep
  • Black Slaves - White Chains
  • Black T-shirt Collection
  • Black to Basics
  • Black Women, The
    The Black Women explores the lonely, alienated lives of African American women in New York.
  • Blackta
    Welcome to the neverending talent contest. Behind the scenes, competitors put on their own show, parading their hopes and fears in front...
  • Blest Be The Tie
    Florence can't complain - her children are grown up, she's got best friend Eunice to look after her and is happy to call London her home....
  • Blood Knot, The
  • Blood, Sweat and Fears
    A fast food restaurant create problems for a black employee when it is discovered he is suffering from Sickle Cell Anaemia. Part of the...
  • Blues for Railton
    Tragi-comedy about a black immigrant family's experiences in Britain, fusing Afro-Caribbean rituals and rhythms.
  • Body and Soul
  • Boesman And Lena
    Poor, wandering South African black couple, meet old man revealing the true relationship of their marriage.
  • Bonded
  • Booitjie and the Oubaas
    Gerhardus Strydom is a farmer who suffers a stroke and Booitjie Barends is employed to look after him. The ailing man, struggling to re...
  • Booked!
    A comic spin through the day-to-day encounters of a group of West African 'visitors' to Britain.
  • Boot Dance, The
    The play follows the disintegration and slow recovery of a young South African boot dancer who, after ten years alone in England suddenly...
  • Boot Dance, The
  • Booty Call
  • Booty Call
    Fantasy blurs with reality, Jason and Claire are catapulted into a weird and destructive game. Who will win? Who will lose? Only one way...
  • born bad
    A blood-related black family. A Dad, a Mum, a Daughter, two Sisters, a Brother. A family argument. reveals the skeleton in the closet,...
  • Bottle Imp, The
  • Boy With Beer
  • Branch of the New Nile, A
    The play explores the conflict of classical with creole forms in terms of theatre, asking whether it is possible for a Caribbean actor to...
  • Bread
  • Bread
  • Bread on the Table
    Explores issues related to wheat trading
  • Breakfast Hearts / Choirplay
    Two short plays that explore with startling vibrancy and dark humour what it means to live and love in the modern world.
  • Brethren
  • British–ish
  • Brixton Stories (Or the Short and Happy Life of Ossie Jones)
    A preacher, heckler and soapbox philosopher debate life and religion. A busker sings the Brixton National anthem, complete with gunshots...
  • Bro 9
    Agent Scally is CIA special ops, Moss Side & Hulme. One night, in his tower block, Scally has a close encounter with 10-foot tall Black...
  • Bro 9
  • Brother to Brother
    A verbal tapestry of interwoven stories exploring the experience of being black and male in Britian.
  • Brown Girl in the Ring
  • Burghers of Calais
    The story of the Scottsboro boys from 1931 to 1950. Uses whiteface
  • But Stop! We Got Work To Do
  • Calculating Kindness
    Explores the extraordinary life of American scientist George Price (1922-75). Price formulated an equation widely acknowledged as the...
  • Call Mr Robeson
  • Camwood on the Leaves
  • Can You Keep a Secret
  • Can you Keep a Secret?
    This tender and moving play explores a shocking murder and it's aftermath.
  • Can you Play Football?
  • Canton Kitty
  • Capeman, The: A Musical
    Based on a true story of Salvador Agron a sixteen year old Puerto Rican gang member of the "Vampires" sentenced to death for gang murders
  • Captains Tiger, The
    Fugard looks back to 1952 and a year he spent on a cargo steamer when he was 20, working as a general dogsbody, zigzagging to what was...
  • Caravan
    Becky has to go on holiday with her Dad, his new girlfriend, and her daughter Tasmin. Tasmin is only interested in music, clothes and...
  • Caribbean Abroad, A
  • Caribbean Abroad, A
    A Caribbean Abroad explores the experiences of the Caribbean diaspora.
  • Caribbean Revue
  • Carnival Messiah
    Inspired by Handel's celebration of the story of Christ. Carnival Messiah uses the colourful, exuberant traditions of Trinidad carnival...
  • Carve your Name
  • Carver Chair, The
  • Case of Dr Kola, The
  • Case of Dr. Kola, The
  • Casual Ties
  • Catalysta
    Hurricanes can rip through a city and destroy it within a matter of moments; throwing everything and everyone into turmoil. Families on...
  • Category B
  • Cathedral of Chartres, The
  • Catwalk
    Make no mistake, a catwalk is a slippery slope to hell, says this play about black people who work in the fashion business. But why is...
  • Cell, The
  • Chameleon
  • Chameleon
  • Changing State
    A darkly comic coming-of-age story set in inner city London. Three of the characters cling to the hope that the uncertainty and...
  • Charlatan, The
  • Charlie
    Short site specific play performed at The Gardener Arts Centre, Brighton.
  • Chewing Gum Dreams
  • Chewing Gum Dreams
  • Chiaroscuro
    The play revolves around Aisha, Opal, Beth and Yomi who are brought together by the experiences faced as black women in Britain.
  • Children, The
  • Chocolate
    Explores sugar addiction and the cocoa trade through a relationship between a girl and her boyfriend
  • Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
  • Christ of Coldharbour Lane, The
    A revolutionary preacher begs the crowds to 'abandon the wilful peace' that keeps them down. In a play crowded with a kaleidoscope of...
  • Cinderella
    Will Cinderella go to the ball to meet her Prince Charming, despite the wicked efforts of her smelly, nasty step-sisters? Well she might,...
  • Circles
    Circling the outskirts of Birmingham on the Number 11 bus, two teenagers develop an unlikely friendship. Meanwhile a mother observes her...
  • City Jungle
  • Clear Water
    Clear Water, a drama that explores the tension that results as a family struggles to accept its African roots.
  • Clubland
  • Clubland
    Although Ben is married to Denise he's still on the pull, Kenny's looking for someone who's "right", Ade's with Sandra but playing the...
  • Coat, The
    Five performers on a bare stage invite a 'white' audience to witness them devise a play
  • Cobweb, The
  • Colour Black, The
  • Come Jubilee
  • Coming Home
    Years ago, Veronica Jonkers departed for the big city in the brave New South Africa, set on making her dreams of fame and fortune come...
  • Coming Up For Air
  • Compound Images
  • Conjuring Tales
  • Count it all Joy
  • Coup, The
    A funeral oration of President Eddie Jones; a precarious military takeover with trigger-happy squabbling factions: Mustapha Matura's...
  • Coups and Calypsos
    Elvira is African. Rohan is Indian. They are both Trinidadian. They live in London but are stranded on the holiday island of Tobago...
  • Cricket at Camp David
  • Cripple, The
  • Crossroads
  • Crucificado, The
    Morose, a junkie existing in a haunting world of beggar prophets and trapped women, tries to free himself from the slavery imposed upon...
  • Cry for a leader
  • Custody
    When a young black man, Brian, dies in police custody, it sends shock waves across the community. Reeling from his death, Brian’s family...
  • Cuttin' It
    About female genital mutilation as seen throught he experiences of two teenage girls
  • Dance Bongo
  • Dance of the Forests, A
    A Dance of the Forests presents a complex interplay between gods, mortals, and the dead in which the ideal goal is the experience of self...
  • Dark and Lovely
    Solo show exploring back identity through hair
  • Dark, The
  • Day of Action
  • Daydreams Of Hailey
    Performed at the Royal Court Theatre as a rehearsed reading.
  • Days Of Significance
    Written in response to Much Ado About Nothing, Days of Significance is set in market-town England and the deserts of Iraq. On the eve of...
  • Days Of Significance
  • De Botty Business
  • Dear Heart
    In 1988 Jenny Davis stumbled upon dozens of letters her aunt, Wynne, had written to her young soldier husband Mickey during World War II....
  • Death and The King's Horseman
    The King is dead, and tonight his Horseman must escort him to the Ancestors. As Elesin Oba dances through the closing marketplace,...
  • Death Catches the Hunter
    When the prophet Emefa receives the word of God he founds a new chruch, and the people flock to see the miracles he performs. He cures...
  • Death of a Black Man, The
  • Death of a Black Man, The
  • Death of England
  • Death of England: Delroy
  • Defense, The
    A guard in a Lower East Side (New York) housing project, has had a dream of death. The play is a summoning of a defense, images from his...
  • Defined By Design
    An exploration of the theme of unrequited love. A play for four voices, we are taken on a journey through the eyes of the lover unloved,...
  • Delirium
  • Desert Boy
    Desert Boy, a time-travelling a capella musical, offers a sharp twist on the subject of knife crime, black youth and absent fathers.
  • Detainee, The
  • Detaining Justice
    Justice is locked in a cold dark cell, his asylum application pending. His sister Grace would like to help, but has been told to leave it...
  • Devil has Quentin's Heart, The
    Welcome to the turbulent world of Quentin Forrest and his quest for salvation. Quentin had it all, riding high as a trader on Wall Street...
  • Dialogue
    An episode, which obliquely shows the dangers for black people of succumbing to society's mad desire for consumer goods and forgetting...
  • Dija
    This is the inside of a black child's dream, a child who is searching for her birthday
  • Dimetos
    Concerns the position and responsibility of an intellectual in society
  • dirty butterfly
    Flatmates Amelia and Jason are drawn into the dark and compelling world of their mutual neighbour Jo who is the victim of nightly...
  • Distant Violence
  • Distant Violence
    Part of a series of short plays which sheds light on the plight in Darfur.
  • Doin' It
  • Don't Gas the Blacks
  • Downside Up
  • Dragon Can't Dance, The
    The Dragon Can't Dance explores the power of Carnival over the lives of the community on Calvary Hill, in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
  • Dream on Monkey Mountain
    The play follows Makak from one visionary night in his solitary home on Monkey Moutnain, upon a messianic journey of physical healing,...
  • Drummer, The
    A tramp roots through rubbish finds a drumstick, then a second. He can make a rhythm with the sticks, and then with an upturned tin can...
  • Drums and Colours: An Epic Drama
  • Dying Business, A
  • Early Morning
    The play is set early one morning in the City of London. In a team of office cleaners, dissent in the ranks reaches fever pitch. Ojo,...
  • Echo in the Bone, An
    Crew, a black peasant, is missing. Maas Charlie, the white estate owner is dead. What killed him? The answers lie deep in the racial...
  • Eclipsed
    Story of four women's lives during civil war
  • Effie May
    Set in a claustrophobic and class ridden village in Grenada, this engaging play is inspired by the spirit world stories of La Diablesse ...
  • Egusi Soup
    As a British-Nigerian family pack their suitcases and prepare to head home for a funeral, they realise they will need to get rid of some...
  • El Dorado
    Specifically set in 'The West Indies', El Dorado turns its attention to a mixed-race, middle class family interred in their formerly...
  • El Dorado
  • Elephant in the Room
    Mixture of hip hop, dance, physical theatre and spoken word explores themes of mental health and toxic masculinity.
  • Elmina's Kitchen
    You can't just walk into dis bad man t'ing, you gotta learn the whole science of it. You step into that arena and you better be able to...
  • Emigrating Home
  • Equiano
    Based on the extraordinary autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, the play explores the secret history of Britain's earliest black community.
  • Estate walls
    The play follows the story of Obi, a young writer who dreams of leaving the estate in which he lives. The story focuses on the young...
  • Estate, The
    Set in contemporary Lagos, Nigeria, The Estate tells the story of the family chief Adeyemi, a wealthy businessman with an extended family...
  • Every Bit Of It
  • Exit Sign
  • Exit Sign
  • Exits and Entrances
    The play is based directly on Fugards own early formative experiences in South African theatre and the affect that the legendary...
  • Exodus
  • Fallout
  • Fallout
    A boy is found dead. DC Joe Stephens must return to his old neighbourhood to investigate. Shance is avoiding his questions about her...
  • Familyman
    Caesar Ramsay works hard for his family. But the news his son Nelson reveals, sends Caesar's seemingly ordinary life rapidly spinning out...
  • Far Side, The
    The Far Side is based on the aftermath of the Stephen Lawrence murder where a kangaroo court of the local community summon back the...
  • Fast Cuts and Snap Shots
    A group of black men from different countries - Ghana, Jamaica, Nigeria, Zimbabwe - meet and discuss a range of topics from history to...
  • Feast
  • Femmes Noires, Les
    The play explores the tribulations of black women in New York and the lonliness of the human condition. A presence in the play - almost a...
  • Fiddler, The
  • Figures at Chartres, The
  • Fine Example, A
  • Fingers Only
    Set in a small town near Lagos during World War 2 Fingers Only is the tale of three pick-pockets, Bab-Osa (master-pick-pocket) Magun Yaro...
  • First Impressions
  • Fishing
  • Fit
    FIT is a play about attempting to fit in and trying to stand out in a culture where everything from not liking sport to wearing the...
  • Fix Up
  • Fix Up
    It’s Black History month but you wouldn’t know it in Tottenham where Revive PLC plan to turn Kwesi’s All Black African Party hotbed into...
  • Fixed Deal
  • Fixer
    Set in Northern Nigeria against a backdrop of global turmoil and corruption. An oil pipeline, a group of rebels, a multinational, two...
  • Flamingo
  • Flesh to a Tiger
    Drama set in the Caribbean.
  • Floor 44
  • For One Night Only
    Bode and Eddie arrive at Heathrow via the same dodgy passport service. Finding they share more than just the same new identity, they hook...
  • Foreplay
  • Four Hundred Pounds
  • Four Hundred Pounds
    Refusal to pot the black in a snooker game on ideological grounds loses hero and his more pragmatic gambling partner similar sum of money.
  • Franklin: A Tale of the Islands
  • Friday's Bread on Monday
    An impoverished essay on hunger in the townships
  • From Choices to Chocolates
  • From Zia with Love
    When the Military decrees that a crime carrying a prison sentence now retroactively warrants summary execution, confusion and fear...
  • Front Room, The
    Mother and daughter, Ina and Alecia are women in waiting...Waiting for the prodigal son to return, the good china is laid out and the...
  • Fun In Lethe; or, The Feast of Misrule
    The play involves the journey of a young Negro poet through Great Britain; it makes use of Chinese classical drama, as well as Greek comedy
  • Funeral Flowers
    Angelique, 17, dreams of being a florist but must face challenges of her mum being in prison, the care system and the local gang.
  • Garret Augustus Morgan
  • Gather in Your Name
  • Gbana Bendu
  • Generations
  • generations
  • Gente, La
  • Ghost Town
  • Ghosts: Live From Galilee The Scottsboro Boys
  • Gift, The
  • Gift, The
    Since their childhood, when Heather left Jamaica to start a new life in England, her half-sister Bernice always claimed to have 'the gift...
  • Gilbert is Dead
    Lucius Trickett, owner of the most famous taxidermy museum in London, conspires with Queen Victoria and intrepid explorer Gilbert Shirley...
  • Girl Who Wished, The
    The Girl Who Wished is the story of a young girl who prefers to be somebody other than herself. The play explores the idea that role...
  • Girls
    Three everyday girls, three best friends forever and three big issues: love, sex, religion. But when they’re kidnapped from home, their...
  • Give It Up Mum
  • Give the Gaffers Time to Love you
  • Glory
    Glory is an anti-imperialist story of struggle for independence for Trinidad and Tobago interweaved with abuse of a young woman by her...
  • God Don't Like Ugly
  • God is a DJ
    Hard Rock, Hip Hop, Trip Hop, R and B, Country, Punky, Funky, Folk, Soul not forgetting Rock and Roll. Nothing touches us like music,...
  • God's Property
    It's 1982. London is restless, gripped by spiralling unemployment and innercity riots. Ska beats dominate the airwaves and in a flat in...
  • God's Second In Command
  • Gods Are Not To Blame, The
  • Goin' Local
  • Golden Hour, The
  • Golden Hour, The
    When a British triage nurse of Zimbabwean descent encounters an African baby that he suspects has been illegally brought into the country...
  • Golden Lions, The
  • Gone Too Far
    When two brothers from different continents go down the street to buy a pint of milk they lift the lid on a disunited nation where...
  • Good Dog
    One person monologue. good dog chronicles growing up in a multicultural community and the everyday injustices that drive people to take...
  • Good Iago
  • Good Neighbours
    Good Neighbours centres on the story of two neighbours at war with each other after a dispute.
  • Grace's Story
  • Grey
    She is a strong, independent, black woman. She has a roof over her head. She has food in her fridge. She lives a good life. She’s also a...
  • Gulp Fiction
    Two ex-cons on a mission. Returning to the East End of London after seven years in jail they discover their private lives are in ruins.
  • Gutted
  • Hair
    A play highlighting the cultural gap between a mother and her British born son.
  • Haitian Earth, The
  • Half Breed
    This is a partly autobiographical dark comedy about finding your voice.Jazmin feels different. She doesn’t want to stay in the village....
  • hang
    Explores themes of criminal justice, capital punishment and revenge
  • Happy Birthday Mister Deka D
    Mister Deka D celebrates his birthday in a place where time has stood still. A man and a woman come together to confront their past,...
  • Hard Time Pressure
  • Harm's Way
  • Harry Dernier: A Play for Radio Production
  • Have You Seen Us
    Henry Parsons, a professor and South African comes in for his usual - a turkey sandwich and insulting banter with Adela, the Mexican...
  • Have You Seen Zandile?
  • Havoc in the Garden
    Havoc in the Garden unfolds in a small neighbourhood of five houses on an Auckland hillside where an act of violence and rage is about to...
  • Hello and Goodbye
    Siblings reunion evokes bitter childhood memories and feelings of despair.
  • Henri Christophe
    Concerning a Haitian slave who became a king
  • Here Comes A Candle
  • Hero's Welcome, A
    A Hero's Welcome follows the story of three young women growing up in the Caribbean in 1947 and the men who seem to offer a way out.
  • Hero's Welcome, A
  • Hey Brown Girl
    Hey Brown Girl focuses on the experiences of being young, black and female.
  • High Heel Parrotfish
    It's drag night at Mrs Miller's Bar in Trinidad. As Carnival fever raises temperatures outside, six beautiful 'ladies' prepare backstage,...
  • High Life
    A mother's loss turns into obesession after the unexplained suicide of her popular teenage daughter. When two Igbo families come together...
  • High Life
  • Hold it Up
  • Hold On
    Hold On tells the story of the egotistical chauvinist Rufus Collins trying to put on a sixties soul tribute concert, while his female...
  • Honey Man, The
    The Honey Man tells the absorbing tale of an unlikely friendship that develops one summer between Misty, a 15 year-old girl, and The...
  • Horses Of The Night
    Horses of the Night draws heavily on the language and themes of Christpoher Marlowe's Dr Faustus.
  • Hound
  • Hounding of David Oluwale, The
    Based on Kester Aspden's award-winning book that charts the life of a man hounded to death by racist police, Oladipo Agboluaje's play...
  • House
    When Pat returns to her childhood home after a five-year absence, she's ready to forgive her mother for the neglect she suffered at her...
  • House Of Agnes
    After 40 years of building a home in London, Agnes is retiring and moving back to Ghana. Her final wish is for her sons to live together...
  • House of Corrections
  • How Nigeria Became: A Story, and a Spear that Didn't Work
    A troupe of actors prepare to stage the story of the Spear of Shango for the British Governor and his wife
  • How the Ghost of You Clings
  • How To Look Good In Power
  • Hungover
    Play written in response to the 2010 General Election - part of Theatre Royal's Rough Cuts Season
  • Hungry Earth, The
  • Hurricane Dub
  • Hyacinth Blue
    Hyacinth Blue tells the stories of Patience, Abina and Charlotte, three women in prison. As Abina does Patience’s hair, the voices draw...
  • I hope It's Not A Black Man
  • I Marcus Garvey
  • I See You
    A couple meetin in a nightclub on a Friday night and end up in a police station. The play explores old and new identities in post...
  • I Stand Corrected
  • Icarus Girl, The
    Jessamy Harrison is the precocious only child of a Nigerian mother and English father, who finds it impossible to make friends. Then she...
  • Iced
    The play tells the story of Cornelius Washington Jnr. He is a 40 year old product of a middle class, stable American family and a crack...
  • Iced
    The play was directed by Felix Cross and tells the story of Cornelius Washington Jnr. He is a 40 year old product of a middle class,...
  • Identity
  • IDP
    A mother refuses to acknowledge a daughter who has been brutalised while gathering firewood outside a camp.
  • Ilse and Joe
  • In a Fine Castle
  • In My Father's House
  • In The Mood
  • In The Mood
    In The Mood focuses on two Caribbean Second World War veterans, whose nostalgic Remembrance Sunday lunch is disrupted by a visit from...
  • In Time
    Two young lovers are forcibly separated. Years later their children from subsequent marriages meet and fall in love. Will pain and hatred...
  • In Transit
  • Independence
  • Independence
  • Independence Day
    A woman in her fifties is sleeping with a man in his thirties. They say they're in love with each other. It's a love the world can't live...
  • Indian
    Indian is an entertaining slice of life set in a West Indian pad near Westbourne Grove, London.
  • Invention, The
    The Invention reflects the obsession with race that marked the apartheid regime, and prophetically depicts the beginnings of the...
  • Invisible
  • Ione: A Play with Music
  • Irish Pele
  • Island Life
    The hopes and fears of three women in an old peoples' home.
  • Island, The
    Two political prisoners in the Robben Island maximum security prison perform lengthy backbreaking mimes. Part of A South African Season.
  • Isle is Full of Noises, The
  • Itsy Bitsy Spider
    Itsy Bitsy Spider follows the story of Anansi, the trickster spider on his journey to confront the mighty wind who has taken one of...
  • Itsy Bitsy Spider 2
  • IVAN
    Ivan is based on the experiences of Jonzi D and his partner Jane surviving Hurricane Ivan.
  • Iya-ile (The First Wife)
    It's 1989 in Lagos. Political hysteria and social change are sweeping Nigeria. Chief Adeyemi's wife Toyin is turning forty and, behind...
  • J'ouvert
    Two best friends experience of Carnival and exploration of themes of sexual politics
  • Jack of Spades
    Written for the Commonwealth Arts Festival Jack of Spades courted controversy while touching directly on matters of importance and...
  • Jamaican Airman Forsees His Death, A
    Three young Jamaican men join the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. A strong bond of friendship and memories of home accompany...
  • Jero's Metamorphosis
  • Jestina's Calypso
  • Joachim an' Granny
  • Job Rocking
  • Jobell and America
    Joebel believes his seeing too much hell in Trinidad and decided he is going to live in America.
  • Joe Guy
    Joe Boateng's days behind the counter of a cheap burger bar are far behind him, as is his childhood sweetheart Naomi and the kids who...
  • Joe Guy
  • Johnny Was a Good Man
  • Joker of Seville, The
  • Josephine and I
    From the ragtime rythms of St Louis and the intoxicating sounds of 1920s Paris, to present day London, Josephine and I intertwines the...
  • Josie's Boys
  • Jourmard; or, A Comedy till the Last Minute
  • Jumbie Street March
    T-Bone Wilson's play explores the emergence in Guyana of a seemingly socialist government.
  • Junction Village
  • Junior's Story
    A rent boy called Junior gets caught up in male prostitution.
  • Just an Ordinary Lawyer
    In 1945 Nigerian Tunji Sowande arrived in the UK. He came here after the war, fuelled by his passions for classical music and for...
  • Just One Kiss
  • Key Game, The
    Care in the community is an issue that will always cause controversy. The Key Game, produced by Talawa, may be set in a psychiatric...
  • King Baabu
  • Kingston 14
  • Klaas and the Devil
  • Knock Against My Heart
  • Kunene and the King
    Two men reflect on 25 years since the Apartheid regime ended.
  • La Mere/The S Bend
  • Lament for Rastafari
    A vast historical and geographical panorama of the trials of Rastafarian life. Set in Jamaica, New York and England, the play begins with...
  • Lament for Rastafari
  • Langbodo
  • Last Blind Date, The
  • Last Bus, The
  • Last Carnival, The
  • Last Carnival, The
    Colonial life style of a French Creole family faced with the emergence of the black power movement
  • Laws of War
    A civil war is raging in modern England threatening to turn the land of cricket, and warm beer into a hell of displaced people, rape,...
  • Leave Taking
  • Leave Taking
    Leave Taking, first produced in 1987 at the Liverpool Playhouse, is a play about relationships, identity and the role of the past in the...
  • Legend of Moremi
    A five minute monologue written for Cathy Tyson about the legend of the Yoruba heroine Moremi Ajasoro.
  • Leonora's Dance
    Leonora always wanted to be a dancer, and her dreams are fulfilled when she joins the ballet. Here she experiences prejudice and...
  • Les Femmes Noires
  • Lesson From Aloes, A
    A humane but naïve Afrikaner chooses to wait out apartheid whilst his Anglo-Saxon wife teeters on the brink of insanity and the coloured...
  • Lesson Plan
  • Let There Be Love
    When West Indian pensioner Alfred Morris is kicked out of his daughter’s Croydon house he returns to his Willesden home to find he’s been...
  • Let There Be Love
  • Letting Yourself Go
  • Liar
    A compulsive liar has a spiritual awakening and becomes a successful tv evangelist. Can Wole use his new healing skills to bring harmony...
  • Liberated Woman, A
  • Liberian Girl
    Set against the Liberian civil war, a young girl flees her village by dressing as a boy which leads to her having to join a band of child...
  • Life and Times of J Walter Smintheus, The
    Smintheus, a black bourgeois intellectual, while working on a massive sociological study entitled "The Contributions of the Negro...
  • Lift Off
  • Lift Off
    When old time school friends Mal and Tone begin to break their lifelong friendship, bitter prejudices are brought to the fore.
  • Like Them That Dream
  • Like Them That Dream
    A young South African living in exile in New York comes face to face with an old enemy, he must choose between revenge or mercy
  • Lily of Bermuda, The
  • Lion and the Jewel, The
  • Lion, The
  • Lion, The
  • Listen to Your Parents
  • Little Baby Jesus
    Little Baby Jesus is a lyrical triptych of monologues revealing the inter-connected lives of three inner-city teenagers, capturing the...
  • Little Orfeo's Lay
  • Little Sweet Thing
  • Little Sweet Thing
    Kev, Jamal and Ryan used to run together in the winning school relay team. Now they are running just to stand still on the huge housing...
  • Live From Galilee
  • Local Boy
  • Local Boy
  • Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The
    A gritty adaptation of Alan Sillitoe's classic text, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is set in Britain's Olympic year 2012. ...
  • Lonely Cowboy
    A couple's attempt to start a cafe leads to comedy and then tragedy as they try to ban other values than their own from the cafe.
  • Lonely Cowboy
  • Long Time No See
    Long Time No See is the story of a white working class woman named Freda who marries Billy, a hopeful young Jamaican whom she meets in...
  • Love Is Not Enough
  • Lower Depths, The
  • Mad About the Boy
    Boy. Dad. Man. A lyrical tussle of will and minds. Boy wants to be bad like the rest. Dad wants the best for the boy. Man wants the boy...
  • Madmen and Specialists
  • Makinde
    Inspired by William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Makinde is the story of a young British graduate of West African descent who, on the eve of...
  • Making Waves
  • Malcochon, Six in the Rain
  • Mamma Decemba
    Mamma Decemba is a bittersweet play about an older Jamaican woman living in England who finds herself widowed, jobless, and deserted by...
  • Man and Soul
  • Man and Soul
  • Man Better Man
    The giddy atmosphere of carnival is the setting for Errol Hill's 'Man Better Man', a rumbustuous, colourful comedy musical about...
  • Manchester Lines
  • Mapping The Edge
    Mapping the Edge was created by Louise Ann Wilson and Wils Wilson in collaboration with playwright Bernardine Evaristo, poet Amanda...
  • Marching for Fausa
    Marching for Fausa explores political corruption in the Federal Republic of Songhai, a fictional country on the west coast of Africa. A...
  • Marian Anderson:The Lady From Philadelphia
  • Marie Laveau
  • Markus the Sadist
    The tale of a talented young emcee’s meteoric rise from local battle champion to rap superstardom. Lured by the promise of money and fame...
  • Mary Seacole
    Mary Seacole the Opera tells the dramatic ture story of the pioneering Jamaican healer Mary Seacole daughter of a black Jamiacan mother...
  • Masada
  • Masada
  • Maskarade
  • Mass Carib
  • Master Harold and the Boys
    A young white student moves from childhood innocence to poisonous bigotry.
  • Master Juba
    Based on a true story, William Henry Lane is an African-American discovered hoofing in a bar in the New York in the mid 19th Century....
  • Master of Carnival, The
    Based on a short story by Euton Jarvis, which presents a veteran mask maker who sacrifices his life in his effort to win the carnival...
  • Maw Broon Monologues, The
    Maw Broon goes in search of herself with her sidekick doppelganger Psyche.
  • Meetings
    Hugh and Jean are a middle class, successful, Trinidadian couple leading very busy lifestyles. Hugh becomes aware of something missing in...
  • Memory of Rain, The
  • Mille Miglia
    Preparations for the great road race featuring the unique partnership between Moss and Jenkinson
  • Miss Quashi and the Tiger's Tail
  • Mister Biko
  • Misty
    About a fight on the night bus.
  • Modern Amazons
  • Moj of the Antarctic
    Moj of the Antarctic is inspired by the wonderful true life story of Ellen Craft, a 19th century African-American slave woman who escaped...
  • Money To Live
    The play tells the story of the underpaid, yet independent, Charlene. Her vivacious friend Judy persuades Charlene to join her in the...
  • Moon Dance Night, The
  • Moon Dance Night, The
  • Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
    The play centres on around a group of characters living close to the poverty line in a shared tenement yard in Port of Spain, Trinidad....
  • Moor Masterpieces
    Othello, James Baldwin, Solomon, Duke Ellington and Martin Luther King talk about the past, present, slavery and liberation.
  • More More
  • Mother Poem
    The stage adaptation of Edward Kamau Brathwaite's Mother Poem is a combination of dreams, memories and questions inspired by the island...
  • Mother's Day
  • Muhammad Ali & Me
    Muhammad Ali and Me is a lyrical coming of age story, following the parallel struggles of a gay child growing up in foster care and the...
  • Mules
  • Mules
    In a luxury hotel room, three sleek young black women are panicking. They are high-class "mules" (or drugs couriers) and one of their...
  • Mummer's Play, The
    Bellysong and Pariah, whose age difference could make them father and son, are actually two black artists at different stages of...
  • Muscovado
    About slavery and the sugar trade
  • Musical Youth
  • Mwana
    Mwana is a salad boy - neither Western or African he is a young Zimbabwean educated in Glasgow, conflicted between his love for the West...
  • My Children, My Africa
    A play which debates the value of a humanist education in a context of radical political action
  • My Enemy
    My Enemy shows the attempts of a white MP to verbally destroy a Black Power leader who is having an affair with his daughter.
  • My Father and Other Superheroes
  • My Life
    A piece Fugard workshopped with Elleanor Busi Mthimunye, Reshoketswe Maredi, Heather Leite, Riana Jacobs and Sivagamy Govender, based on...
  • My Life
  • My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
  • My Name is Village
  • My Territory
    A play about borders, space and territory.
  • My White Best Friend (And Other Letters Left Unsaid)
    11 writers resond to the task of composing a letter to their white best friend.
  • New Hardware Store, The
  • New Nigerians
    Nigeria: ‘The Giant of Africa’. Conservatives rule over the biggest economy on the continent, and one of the largest and youngest...
  • New Views - Student-curated platform on Statement of Regret
  • Next Door
  • Nice
  • Night And Day
  • Night Moves
  • Nina: A Story About Me and Nina Simone
    Draws connections between Bushell-Mingo's life growing up in the UK and Nina Simone's in the US exploring themes of racism and oppression
  • Nine Lives
    A monolgoue about the experiences of a Zimbabwean refugee living in Leeds after fleeing his homeland to escape persecution for being gay.
  • Nine Night
    Gloria is gravely sick. When her time comes, the celebration begins; the traditional Jamaican Nine Night Wake. But for Gloria’s children...
  • Nine Night, The
  • Nine Night, The
    Hamon Williams has lived in exile in England for twenty years. He calls a family gathering to propose that the family can regain its...
  • No Boys Cricket Club
  • No Boys Cricket Club
    Living alone on a drab London council estate, Abi has long since lost sight of the good things in life, until an old friend takes her...
  • No Good Friday
    Period 1950's dealing with the gang protection racket in Johannesburg townships
  • No Mean Street
  • No Place To Be Nice
    This is the story of Price, an unsuccessful business man who aspires to greater things. His life is a round of never-ending, ominous...
  • Nongogo
    Ajazz honky-tonk bar in Johannesburg in the 1950s where the sheebeen-queen, now affluent, tries to live down her past as a Nongogo or...
  • Now We Are Here
    Workshopped piece with refugee writers in collaboration with Deanna Rodger, Ian Rickson and Imogen Brodieby. Explores writers' life...
  • nut
  • O Babylon!
    The play is both the love story of Aaron and Electric Gyal, and the story of the Trench Town community's strugle for survival against the...
  • O Babylon!
  • Occupation, The
    A sherry-gang of white drop outs squat in a grand mansion
  • Oddest Couple, The
    The oddest couple tells the tale of Thelma and Iggy Norant, a suburban couple in a stale marriage. Thelma seeks life, love and laughter,...
  • Ode To Charlie Parker
  • Ode to Leeds
    Five Leeds spoken word poets compete in an international poetry slam in New York City.
  • Odyssey, The
    The story of Odysseus' protracted wanderings from fallen Troy to his island home of Ithaca. The episodes are pungently interspersed with...
  • Off Camera
  • Off the Endz
    David, Kojo and Sharon grew up on a North London estate. Now in their mid 20s, they are eyeing another kind of life. David, an anansi...
  • Offering For Nightworld
  • Oga's Ark
    After their bus crashes, the survivors of an African theatre troupe rehearse a new version of their play The Animals are Taking Over, but...
  • OK Systems
  • Old Story Time
  • Old Story Time
  • On A Level
  • On Duty
  • On The Out
  • One Bad Casa
  • One Love
    Hot, humid, downtown Kingston, Jamaica. The 1970s. Streets pulse with reggae, rhythm and dub. Brotherman is a local Rastafarian guru who...
  • One Man Play
  • One Rule
    Directed by Charlie Hanson this is a play about an ambitious reggae band. Tick, the idealisitic bassist of the band, challenges his...
  • One Under
  • One Under
    When tube train driver Cyrus experiences his first 'one under' it sets in motion a life-altering chain of events. In his search to...
  • Opera Wonyosi
  • Orestes
    A tale of two sets of triangular relationships: Clytemnestra, Orestes and Electra; and the mother and daughter killed by the 60's bomber...
  • Oroonoko
    In 1688 the British writer and playwright Aphra Behn published her novella, Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave. It tells the strory of an...
  • Our Eyes Are Upon Thee
  • Outlaw, The
    Having visited the United States, Gloria returns to her husband and to her home with new ideas about freedom within her marriage and...
  • Oxford Street
    At Total Sports, security guard Kofi and his workmates are making sure everything runs smoothly, easing the daily grind with plenty of...
  • Palm Wine and Stout
    A wickedly funny portrayal of the writer’s trip back to his father’s homeland. Son of an English mother and a Nigerian father, Taiye is...
  • Pandora's Box
    A British-born Nigerian mother accompanies her streetwise son on his first trip to her homeland, but then wrestles with whether to leave...
  • Pantomime
  • Pantomime
    Pantomine is a fast pace comedy set on the Caribbean island of Tobago. In the hope of entertaining future guests, an English Hotel owner...
  • Paolo and Francesca
  • Paper and Stone
    Paper And Stone focuses on the lives of two young black women. Brenda craves independence and is persuaded by Juliet to get away from her...
  • Paper Jackets
  • Parcel Post
    A supposed virgin bride travels from Africa to join the bridegroom in London. All they know of each other is from photographs.
  • Party
  • Passports to the Promised Land
    Jordan is on a voyage of discovery. At nineteen years of age he leaves the Caribbean for England in search of his father. But rather than...
  • Peckham: The Soap Opera
  • People Are Living There
    Jilted landlady organises party for lodgers to prove she can enjoy herself in old age.
  • Picture Palace
  • Pinchy Kobi and the Seven Duppies
  • Ping Pong, The: A back yard drama in one Act
  • Pinocchio
  • Pirate Princess, The
    The Pirate Princess is set aboard a pirate ship where the notorious John Rackman, alias Calico Jack, leads a band of recalcitrants in his...
  • Place with the Pigs, A
    Provoked by the true story of a 2 World War Soviet Army deserter, Pavel Navvrotsky, who spent forty one years hiding in his own pigsty
  • Platform Tales
  • Play Mas
    Play Mas recreates the impact of the heady political momentum generated by the People's National Movement in Trinidad in the early...
  • Play of Giants, A
  • Playboy of the West Indies
    Based on J M Synge’s Playboy of the Western World,Matura's play opened at the Oxford Playhouse in 1984 and subsequently toured the UK...
  • Playing The Game
    The Students' Association needs a new president and Akousa's achingly cool flatmates are certain she is perfect for the position. How can...
  • Playing the Right Tune
  • Playland
    A story of apartheid; a white man requires black man's help to start car.
  • Please And Thank-You
  • Poison
  • Positive Mental Attitude
  • Prayer, The
    As a young boy, Granville is subjected to physical and mental torture by his bullying father. He is beaten into submission, battered into...
  • Precious
  • Price of Mercy, The
  • Prime Time
  • Princess and the Hustler
    A 10-year-old plans to win the Weston-Super-Mare Beauty Contest.
  • Pugilist, The
  • Pulse
  • Pure Gold
  • Pure Gold
    Pure Gold focuses on black inner-city life as a father struggles to provide for his family.
  • Pyeyucca
  • Pygmies and the Pyramid, The
    My Ex' tells the story of three, very different, married couples who all recently decided to buy a new house. The three houses they buy...
  • Question Of Courage, A
    In 2004 Trevor Phillips, Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, asked if the countryside is guilty of a "passive apartheid"....
  • QUICK, PHYLLIS: GRAB A DYKE AND DANCE YOUR WAY OUT: -IT'S A RAID!!
  • RAAS
  • Race Today
  • Ragamuffim
  • Ragamuffin
    Ragamuffin is a man on trial. In the 'Supreme Court of Afrikan Justice' he has been indicted for his role in criminalizing the black...
  • Raising Fires
  • Ramzy Abul Majd
  • random
    An ordinary family starts an ordinary day, until their young son is killed in a random shooting outside his school.
  • Rastafarian, The
    A boys acceptance of death and life
  • Re: Exhibit
    About an actor auditoning for a role in Brett Bailey's "Exhibit B" which was cancelled following accusations of racism
  • Ready or Not
  • Ready or Not RAW
  • Reap What You Sow
    A 20 minute reading based on Yoruba myths and characters inspired by the play The Brothers Size by Tarrell Alvin McCraney.
  • Red Helicopter, The
    It is 2072, the UK is in turmoil after an apocalyptic event and a group of young people are camped out on the thrid floor of an office...
  • Redemption Song
    Redemption Song is a blend of melodrama and ritual. A poet, Legion Bramble, returns to his island homeland during the Mummers' Festival...
  • Refugee Boy
    Alem and his father are in a B&B in Datchet. Alem has lived in Ethiopia and Eritrea but this is his best holiday ever. But in the morning...
  • Rejoicing at her Wonderous Vulva the Young Woman Applauded Herself
    Exploration of female sexuality.
  • Remembrance
    Remembrance is the story of an eloquent retired teacher who cannot reconcile his anachronistic love of British culture with the evolution...
  • Reservoir of Dreams
  • Resistance
    Resistance explores the evolution of Jacques Lusseyran as the blind teenage hero of the French Resistance. Resistance uses physical...
  • Resurrections in the Season of the Longest Drought
    Resurrections set in Nigeria is a subversive and satirical drama that takes us into a world where shady drug dealers and corrupt lawyers...
  • Return To My Native land
  • Revo
  • Rhapsody 'n Black 'n White
  • Rhymes Reasons and Bomb Ass Beatz
    This darkly comic play covers three years in the interconnected lives of 10 Britons and Americans, from drag queens to rappers, drug...
  • Rihla
    THE RIHLA includes eyewitness portraits of the people of Baghdad shortly before the bombs fell.
  • Ritual
    The play takes on the form of ritual by intersecting text with music and dance. The main character, Barzey, is approaching 40, and as a...
  • Ritual By Water
  • Ritual By Water
  • Rivers Run Deep
  • Road To Mecca, The
    Suggested by the life and work of Helen Martins of New Bethesda who is shunned by the small community as an eccentric
  • Road, The
  • Robin and Andrea
  • Rock a Bye Camden
  • Rock in Water, A
    A Rock in Water was commissioned by the Royal Court Young People's Theatre, to examine the life and work of Trinidadian journalist and...
  • Rock in Water, A
  • Rocket Man
    A man tries to chat up a girl but finds his British reserve gets in the way.
  • Rockets and Blue Lights
  • Romance and Treason
  • Romance and Treason
  • Rose's Story
  • Rough Crossings
    As the American War of Independence reaches its climax, a plantation slave and a British naval officer embark on an epic journey in...
  • Routes
  • Ruby My Dear
  • Rum an' Coca Cola
  • Running Dream
    Running Dream tells the story of three generations of West Indian women with warmth and humour.
  • S Bend, The
  • Safe
  • Safe
    Remi should be taking his GCSEs. Instead he's taking care of little nephew Lennox. Big sis Dionne can't cope after boyfriend Delroy is...
  • Samba
  • Samba
    Samba tells the story of Alfredo Lamas a 1950s former Samba King, now running a mini-cab firm. Once the star attraction of the Samba Club...
  • Sammy
    The production uses Sammy Davis Jr's history to tackle relevant contemporary issues - racism and the lack of personal, economic, and...
  • Sancho: An Act of Remembrance
  • Savage London
  • Savage London
  • Say Hallelujah
    Say Hallelujah is a comedy set around the domestic and religious exploits of a long suffering easy going West Indian grocer and his...
  • School Leaver, The
    'The School Leaver is about a young black man in the last year of his school. He finds staying on futile and decides to leave and earn a...
  • School's Out
  • School's Out
    The play follows new idealistic headteacher Russ Dacres' doomed efforts to turn the school into a new centre for learning.
  • School's Out
  • Scourge of Hyacinths, A
  • Scrape off the Black
    London's East End in 1973. Trevor organises a surprise party on the release of his brother Andy from Borstal prison. But Rose, his bingo...
  • Sea at Dauphin
    The sea is a metaphor in this play as two fishermen confront their lives and regeneration on a West Indian island.
  • Secret Army, The
    When incriminating documents linking their son to a Nigerian terrorist cell are found in his Oxford University dorm, a high-flying...
  • Seduced
  • Seigismundo's Tricycle: A Dialogue of Self and Soul
    An old white man on a silver tricycle and a Negro who walks with crutches examine their state of affairs.
  • Seize the Day
  • Seize The Day
  • Set Piece
  • Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner
    In this innovative play blending real life and online culture, a young Black woman takes to Twitter to voice her frustration with white...
  • Shalom Baby
  • Shango
    West African tale of love, magic and violence bursting out of the young and old people left behind in a decaying community.
  • Shebeen
    Caribbean community living in Nottingham in 1958 just before the race riots.
  • Shelter, The
    The first half of this play takes place on a desert island in the late eighteenth-century where an upper-class woman and a black man in...
  • Sherry and Wine
  • Shine
    A 3-year old boy moves with his family from Zambia to Newcastle.
  • Shoot 2 Win
    With more mouth than muscle, the ladies of the VIP Crew aren't going to let anyone get in their way, not even each other. In the locker...
  • Short Sleeves in the Summer
  • Silhouette
    Silhouette examines the meeting between a young woman and the spirit of a woman who died a slave in the Caribbean 200 years ago.
  • Silver Shores
    Set onboard a 19th century slave ship,four men in capacity find themselves in a desperate struggle for freedom of the mind. Before the...
  • Sin Dykes
  • Sin Dykes
    Sin Dykes is the story of one woman's exploration of sexuality. "Dykers are out of the closet. Black dykes openly do SM, dykes openly...
  • Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads
  • Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads
  • Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads
  • Sing Yer Hearts Out - Roy Williams and Paul Miller
  • Sink or Swim
  • Sit Down, Banna
  • Sizwe Bansi is Dead
    Sizwe Bansi is Dead written collaboratively with South African actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona explores the dehumanising treatment...
  • Skyvers
    Skyvers is an unflinchingly honest study of life in a London secondary school where a gang of unruly 15-year-olds are on the verge of...
  • Slamdunk
    Basketball is the most popular game on the planet. Streetball is its rougher, tougher, younger brother. You've got to be strong; you've...
  • Slaves
  • Sleeping Policeman
    Sleeping Police examines Peckham, in South London, through the eyes of six of its inhabitants.
  • Slipping into the Darkness
  • Slow Time
  • Small Island
    Small Island embarks on a journey from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 – the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked...
  • Small World, A
  • Smile Orange
  • Smile Orange
    A romp through a tourist trap hotel.
  • Somebody's Son
    A story about slavery, dignity, and survival.
  • Someone's Son
  • Something Dark
    Something Dark tells the true story of Lemn Sissay who as a baby was given up by his Ethiopian mother in the 1960s. He was renamed Norman...
  • Song of A Bluefoot Man
    Song of a Bluefoot Man is the story of a Jamaican traveller and the people he meets, the things he sees, and his dreams. His story is...
  • Song Of Genji
  • Song of Songs
  • Sons of Charlie Paora, The
    Charlie Paora is dead and buried. One night in a garage in Mangere, South Auckland, a group of young men gather to acknowledge the...
  • Sorrows And Rejoicings
  • Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
  • Soul
    On April Fool's day 1984 Marvin Gaye was shot dead. In charting the untold truths about what happened during Marvin Gaye's haunting...
  • Soul Night
  • Souls
  • Sounds... in Session
    A basement recording studio. Three people are hoping to record the one track that will change their lives; Tanya, a young black singer...
  • Sparkplug
    A white man becomes the adoptive father of a mixed-race child. Inspired by autobiographical events
  • Speak
  • Speechless
    The story of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons. Refusing to speak to adults, the twins communicate in their own private language,...
  • Spiral, The
    The Spiral is based on a series of interviews with a group of British muslims.
  • Spiral, The
  • SS Mendi, Dancing the Death Drill
    Based on the true story of the SS Mendi which sunk in the English Channel on February 21, 1917. More than 600 of the ship's mainly black...
  • Starstruck
  • Starstruck
    A snapshot of the hopes and broken dreams of a family in the Caribbean at a time when Hollywood heart-throb Stewart Granger lands in...
  • Statement of Regret
  • Statements After An Arrest Under The Immorality Act
    A couple run-up against the South African law prohibiting mixed-race relationships
  • Static Lament, A
  • Steel
  • Stick Stack Stock
  • Sticky Fingers
  • Stictly Matrimony
  • stoning mary
    A husband and wife row about a prescription. A mother and father row about their son, who has become a child soldier. Two sisters row...
  • Stop and Search
    Three stories intersect around themes of suspicion, surveillance and antagonism.
  • Stop The Carnival
  • Storm
  • Storm
  • Storm Baby, A
  • Story of M, The
    Commissioned by the Institute for Contemporary Arts in 1995, The Story of M has received great critical acclaim in both the United States...
  • Strange Fruit
    A study of a black family caught between two cultures.
  • Streetwise
  • Strong Breed, The
  • Success or Failure
  • Sucker Punch
    In the red corner: Leon Davidson – Black British champ or Uncle Tom? In the blue corner: Troy Augustus – American powerhouse or naïve...
  • Suffocation
    Peer pressure leads to a dangerous (suffocation) game, when the game goes wrong, the group have to deal with the consequences.Obi, Cain...
  • Summer in London
    A cutting-edge romantic comedy about homeless, pansexual, multiracial trans youth and elders, all searching for love and for somwhere to...
  • Superhoe
    Sasha Clayton is a 24-year-old aspiring singer/rapper who becomes a sex worker.
  • Swamp Dweller's, The
  • Sweep It Under The Carpet
  • Sweep It Under The Carpet
  • Sweet Talk
    Set in a single room whose walls define its characters' lives, Sweet Talk, the most widely performed of Michael Abbensetts' plays, is a...
  • Sweet Yam Kisses
    Sweet Yam Kisses follows three couples as their relationships evolve from getting together to staying together. Woven into the script are...
  • TAG: Just Writing My Name
    An original piece of Hip Hop theatre using break dance, body popping, rap-poetry, larger-than-life graffiti sculptures and video...
  • Take a Deep Breath and Breathe
    Inspired by the Greek mythology Lysistrata, Take a Deep Breath and Breathe explores the power struggles, choices and determinations of...
  • Take Away
    Takeaway tells the story of a city taken over by onions, everyone wants them, everyone is getting hooked, and only Darcus, a travelling...
  • Take Back What's Yours
    Although Beatie longs for the idyllic Dominica of her past, where she intends to marry Ronny, she is blind to the tensions that her dream...
  • Taken
    A mother is confronted by the child she had to give up.
  • Talking About Men
  • Talking In Tongues
    Talking in Tongues set in London and New York begins with a New Year's party in London. Whilst hiding amongst the coats away from the...
  • Temba
  • Temporary Rupture, A
    The man you love, the father of your child, does a bunk at the alter, and disappears out of your life. What do you do? You probably...
  • Teresa
    Alton Kumalo's main protagonist Teresa, finds herself trapped between the conflicting cultures of her native Zambia and the English...
  • Tewodros
  • Tha Half God of Rainfall
    A contemporary epic mixing storytelling and poetry about a Nigerian demi-god basketball hero.
  • That Generation
  • That Generation
  • The Accordion Shop
  • The Bacchae
  • The Convert
    It’s 1896 in what is modern day Zimbabwe and Jekesai, a young woman fleeing forced marriage finds herself working for a devout Catholic...
  • The Coup
  • The Dark
    Story about the migration of a 4-year-old boy and his mother from Uganda.
  • The Epic Adventure of Nhamo the Manyika Warrior and his Sexy Wife Chipo
    With just 24 hours to create the ultimate African fable, the superstar cast is missing a hero. Suddenly a dashing goatherd appears on the...
  • The Firm
    A reunion of former youth gang members
  • The Hotel Cerise
    An upper-class black owned hotel on the eve of the presidential election.
  • The Spalding Suite
    About the lives of a basketball team
  • The Westbridge
    The accusation of a black teenager sparks disturbance on the South London Streets. While tensions rise, a couple from very different...
  • There's Only One Wayne Matthews
  • Thieves Like Us
  • Things Fall Apart
    Things Fall Apart is a theatrical adaptation of the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel. The play focuses on the story of...
  • This is Black: Pyneapple
    Young black women grapple with stereotypes in the London-based hair salon, Crowns. Following these women’s lives, we learn the beauty...
  • This is Black: Teleportation
    Teleportation centres around the relationship of a disabled white man and his black female carer in a Western society where black...
  • Three Assassins
  • Three Birds
    Siblings Tiana, Tionne and Tanika have found themselves home alone. Tiana's keeping it all together by taking charge of housework and...
  • Three Blind Mice
  • Three Sisters
    Three Sisters live a priveliged life in Port of Spain with their unworldy brother and his domineering wife, occupying their lives with...
  • Three-way
    Manchester-based Spoken Word artist Yusra Warsama, Birmingham Grime boy RT and London's storyteller Malika Booker. Three Way engages the...
  • Throne in an Autumn Room
  • Ti-Jean and His Brothers
    A parable of three sons and how each fares with the devil, especially Ti-Jean, "a fool like all heroes," who passed through the tangled...
  • Tickets and Ties
    Tickets and Ties examines the experiences of an extended West African family living in London.
  • Tiger Teeth Clenched Not to Bite
  • Time longer dan rope
  • Time of Fire, A
  • To Die for Grenada
  • To Rahtid
  • To Sir With Love
  • Tomorrow Is Not Promised
  • Torn
  • Torn
    Generations of secrets have broken the Brook family. Siblings split-up, traded-off, treated differently. Angel, the youngest, has called...
  • Toussaint
  • Toussaint L'Ouverture
    In 1791, inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, the slaves of San Domingo rose in revolt. Despite invasion by a series of...
  • Township Boy
  • trade
    Set on a Caribbean island the play examines the live of three women: a hip young thing from London, an older tourist and a resident...
  • Train Driver, The
    An emotionally disturbed train driver wanders into the graveyard of a desolate squatter camp on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth. There he...
  • Transformatons, A Church Ritual
  • Tree
    Tree follows one man’s journey into the heart and soul of contemporary South Africa – with the audience at the centre of the action. It...
  • Tres Cepas
  • Trial And Error
  • Trial of Dedan Kimathi, The
    The Trial of Dedan Kimathi is set during 1952-60, the last phase of British colonial rule in Kenya. Kimathi, leader of the Kenyan Land...
  • Trials of Brother Jero, The
  • Trickster
  • Trickster's Payback
    Its 2099 and scoundrels, villains and tricksters are fighting it out. Who do you trust at payback time when you are surrounded by double...
  • Trinidad Sisters
  • Trinity: The Long and Cheerful Road to Slavery
    Three one act plays dealing with relationships. A Nigerian and West Indian in a London jail trying to bridge the 400 year old gulf of...
  • True Stories
    Harold Finley plays six characters, British and American, male and female, in this darkly funny and provocative piece based on real...
  • Truth and Reconcilliation
  • Tuna Girl
    Marlene has moved to the seaside with her Dad. She misses the city and her friends and the life she left behind. But Marlene's problems...
  • Turned
    Young British man returns to war-torn Nigeria in search of his friend
  • Twice Over
  • Twice Through the Heart
    Based on a true story the play focuses on a woman in prison contemplating her life.
  • Twilight Shift
    The play focuses on two gay men living in a small Scottish mining village.
  • Two Can Play
    Jim and Gloria smuggle their three children out of the country to what they believe will be a better life in America.
  • Two Horsemen
    Baja and Langbaja trade stories about life, sex, and god in a run-down shack. They say they are street-sweepers, but gradually they...
  • Two Step
    Lenny is a success. He has kicked the booze, gone to college and is a budding writer. He also has a trophy wife, young and white, and a...
  • Two Tracks and Text Me
    A stray text message links Friday- night revellers with the fate of a young girl desperate for help.
  • Umongikazi
  • Unbroken
  • Unbroken
  • Under Their Influence
    Under Their Influence is set in contemporary London. The action takes place in a mental institution where the patient is having what he...
  • Unfinished Business
  • Unplanned
    Spells and stories, jelly babies and fishbowls combine in Malika Booker's one one-woman show about fertility and pregnancy.
  • Untitled
    Untitled is a magical realist story set in Nigeria and England, of identical twin boys separated at infancy. In the quarrel after the...
  • Up Against The Wall
    Henry's got an idea. A great idea. An idea that's gonna make him millions. He's gonna write a musical. A black musical. A big black...
  • Upper Cut
    Explores ethnic diversity in the British Labour Party
  • Valley Song
    A young girl seeks the courage to embrace the future of south Africa whilst her grandfather confronts the past
  • Venus / Mars
    Daniel and Michelle first cross paths on the dance floor and gradually become an item. But they soon realise that relationships don't...
  • Venus and the Killer Bees
    Sex, romance and kickboxers! A war of the sexes fought to the bass pumpin sounds of bashment reggae.
  • Very Thought Of You, The
  • Vibes from the Scribes
  • Victor and the Ladies
  • Victory
    Vicky was named to celebrate Nelson Mandelas victorious walk to freedom at the dawn of a new South Africa. Her mother worked happily as...
  • Viva Detroit
  • Voices of the Living Dead
  • Waiting For Hannibal
    Waiting for Hannibal is a drama of love, war, power and politics, played out in Africa in 204BC. The play charts and explores the...
  • Walk Against Fear
  • Water
  • We Are Women
  • Weathering the Storm
  • Wedding Dance, The
    West Side Story meets Dangerous Liaisons with a dash of Tarantino in this passionate love story - a dance musical where the movement and...
  • Wedlock of the Gods
  • Week In Week Out
  • Welcome Home Jacko
    Welcome Home Jacko was inspired by a visit Matura made to a youth club in Sheffield in the 1970s. The play examines the lives of four...
  • Well, The
  • Wenzani: What are You Doing?
  • Wenzani: What Are You Doing?
  • Wey, Wey
  • What's in the Cat
  • What's In The Cat
    Set in Manchester’s Moss Side, What’s in The Cat tells the story of a family Christmas in 1974. Lauren's come back for Christmas dinner,...
  • When Night Comes Day
  • Where There Is Darkness
    Where There is Darkness examines the plight of a West Indian Man on the eve of his return to the Caribbean after an absence of 25 ,...
  • Where To Now
  • White
    WHITE carefully considers the concept of mixed-race privilege, tries to connect clashing cultures and explores what it means to grow up...
  • White Witch of Rose Hall, The
  • Why I don't Hate White People
    Lemn Sissay's play is a brief journey around racism, guilt, denial, political correctness and the meaning of colour.
  • Wicked Games
  • Wild At Heart Club, The
  • Wildefire
    Focusing on the demise of a policewoman's career, the play explores the struggles and pressures faced by the police force.
  • Winds of Change, The
  • Wine of the Country, The
  • Wish Collector, The
    A magical epic whirling from a playground in Britain to a village in Sierra Leone.
  • Women and Sisters
    The play centres on the anti-slavery campaign and in particular the writings of the African-American abolitionist and women's rights...
  • Women Of Troy 2099
    Women of Troy 2009 projects Euripides' classic The Trojan Women one hundred years into the future, where global war rages.
  • Wonderful Yeare, The
    The allusion in this Spanish/black play is London's deliverance from a plague, among other impending disasters. But even while plagues...
  • Wuthering Heights
    Musical adaptation of Emily Bronte's timeless tale of passion, jealousy and revenge. Shakuntala is the fiery and headstrong daughter of...
  • X
  • Yaa Asantewaa: Warrior Queen
    Nana Yaa Asantewaa was a woman of exceptional bravery who, in March 1900, raised and led an army of thousands against the British...
  • You Are What You Eat
  • You Don't Kiss
    Justin moves to London because he is tired of being surrounded by deadbeats and no hopers - he is a winner. So how come his deadbeat,...
  • You in Your Small Corner
    Dave has just moved to London from Jamaica to study and be with his mother, Mrs Jordan, who runs a social club for her fellow countrymen...
  • Zumbi - Flame of Resistance
    A muscial drama based on the myths and legends of ZUMBI, a seventeenth century black Brazilian freedom fighter.
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