Contemporary Black British Playwrights: Margins to Mainstream

✍ Scribed by Lynette Goddard (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Beyond Identity Politics: Black British Playwrights on the Mainstream....Pages 3-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Street Life: Black Masculinity and Youth Violence in Roy Williams’ ‘Urban’ Plays....Pages 21-41
Past and Present: Legacies of Slavery in Kwame Kwei-Armah’s National Theatre Triptych....Pages 42-68
Breaking the Silence: Women’s Solidarity in debbie tucker green’s Abuse and Trauma Plays....Pages 69-94
Playing the Game: Race Relations, Racism and Nation in Roy Williams’ Sports Plays....Pages 95-120
Around the World: African and Caribbean Human Rights in debbie tucker green’s Global Plays....Pages 121-154
A Slice-of-Life: British-African Social Comedy in Bola Agbaje’s Council Estate Plays....Pages 155-172
State-of-the-Nation? Contemporary Black British Playwrights at the Tricycle Theatre....Pages 173-203
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Social Issues and Social Debates: Snapshots, Headlines, Conclusions....Pages 207-215
Back Matter....Pages 216-255

✦ Subjects

Performing Arts; Theatre History; Arts; Theatre and Performance Studies