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  • Calculating Kindness
    About the life of American scientist George Price
  • Call Mr Robeson
  • Can you Keep a Secret?
    This tender and moving play explores a shocking murder and it's aftermath.
  • Can you Play Football?
  • Canton Kitty
  • 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
    A Caribbean Abroad explores the experiences of the Caribbean diaspora.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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...
  • Chameleon
  • Chameleon
  • 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
  • Clear Water
    Clear Water, a drama that explores the tension that results as a family struggles to accept its African roots.
  • 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...
  • Colour Black, The
  • Come Jubilee
  • Coming Up For Air
  • Compound Images
  • Conjuring Tales
  • 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...
  • Cripple, The
  • Custody
  • Cuttin' It
    About female genital mutilation as seen throught he experiences of two teenage girls
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