
Dark and Light Theatre
Biography
The Dark and Light Theatre Company, later called the Black Theatre of Brixton, was founded by Frank Cousins in the early 1970s. By the time it folded, in 1977 it had produced Jon Henrick's Evolution of The Blues; Shiman Wincalbert's Kataki; Amiri Baraka's The Slave; Richard Crone's The Tenant; Robert Lamb's RAAS; Manley Young's Anancy and Bre'r Englishman; T-Bone Wilson's Jumbie Street and Jamal Ali's Twisted Knot. The Black Theatre of Brixton had produced more black plays in two years than the whole of English theatre had in the previous twenty-five.
Productions
Publications
Title | Year | Publisher | NT Library |
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Colin Chambers, Black and Asian Theatre in Britain: A History | 2011 | Routledge | No |
Paul Carter Harrison, Victor Leo Walker II, and Gus Edwards, eds. Black Theatre: Ritual Performance In The African Diaspora | 2002 | Temple University Press | No |
Colin Chambers, ed. The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre | 2013 | Continuum | No |