The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers

The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the present day. In doing so it charts the journey from specialist black theatre companies to the mainstream, including West End success, while providing a cultural and racial barometer for Britain during the last forty years. It opens with Mustapha Matura's 1979 play Welcome Home Jacko which in its depiction of a group of young unemployed West Indians was one of the first to explore issues of youth culture, identity and racial and cultural identification. Jackie Kay's Chiaroscuro examines debates about the politics of black, mixed race and lesbian identities in 1980s Britain, and from the 1990s Winsome Pinnock's Talking in Tongues engages with the politics of feminism to explore issues of black women's identity in Britian and Jamaica. From the first decade of the twenty-first century the three plays include Roy Williams' seminal pub-drama Sing Yer Hearts Out for the Lads, exploring racism and identity against the backdrop of the World Cup; Kwame Kwei-Armah's National Theatre play of 2004, Fix Up, about black cultural history and progress in modern Britain, and finally Bola Agbage's terrific 2007 debut, Gone Too Far!, which examines questions of identity and tensions between Africans and Caribbeans living in Britain. Edited by Lynnette Goddard, this important anthology provides an essential introduction to the last forty years of British black theatre.

ISBN 1408131242   Part volume Welcome Home Jacko, Chiaroscuro, Talking in Tongues, Sing Yer Heart Out ISBN13 9781408131244 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 386 Publisher A & C Black Publishers Ltd   Published in London Imprint Methuen Drama   Series title Play Anthologies Format Paperback   Height (mm) 198 Publication date 24 Feb 2011   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 822.91408096   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General, Tertiary education Pages 496

Welcome Home Jacko; Chiaroscuro; Talking in Tongues; Sing Yer Heart Out ...; Fix Up; Gone Too Far

'The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers is a rich read - or source of performance ideas - for students and others. Work by playwrights such as Jackie kay, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Roy Williams is included.' Stage

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