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Black British drama : a transnational story / Michael Pearce.

By: Pearce, Michael, 1977- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2017Description: xi, 228 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138917866 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Black theater -- Great Britain -- History | English drama -- Black authors -- History and criticism | Performing Arts | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 792'.08996'041 Summary: 'Black British Drama' looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed by the spaces of Africa, the Caribbean and the USA. Offering an exciting new approach to reading black British theatre from 1950 onwards, Michael Pearce examines plays by Kwame Kwei-Armah, Roy Williams, Mojisola Adebayo and Bola Agbaje, as well as UK productions of work by writers including Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson and James Baldwin.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Black British Drama' looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed by the spaces of Africa, the Caribbean and the USA. Offering an exciting new approach to reading black British theatre from 1950 onwards, Michael Pearce examines plays by Kwame Kwei-Armah, Roy Williams, Mojisola Adebayo and Bola Agbaje, as well as UK productions of work by writers including Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson and James Baldwin.

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