Theatre of Black Women

Theatre of Black Women

Business title: Theatre of Black Ladies

Founders: Bernardine Evaristo, Patricia Hilaire, Paulette Randall

Founded: 1982

Explanation: The company founders met at Rose Bruford university, section of an intake that is unusually high of pupils. Throughout their studies they performed programs at Oval House: Prejudice with Patricia Hilaire, Paulette Randall, Robert western, Joan Williams, assisted by Siobhan Lennon and David Sulkin and Coping directed by Yvonne Brewster which involved five black colored ladies from Rose Bruford university and ‘explored the connection between black colored females and black colored guys in England’. The second show ended up being developed by and researched with black colored audiences, both 1980. All 1983) through their collaboration on final projects and involvement with the Royal Court’s Writers’ Workshops, where Randall’s Fishing and Hilaire’s Just Another Day were produced as part of the Young Writers’ Festival 1982, they formed a company first to re-stage the one-woman shows they had devised, for a wider audience: Chameleon (Randall ), Hey Brown Girl (Hilaire), Tiger, Teeth Clenched Not To Bite ( Evaristo. Paulette Randall later withdrew through the business and went on to direct extensively in black colored theater including with Temba, Nitro/ Ebony Theatre Co-op as well as on a freelance basis, particularly the work of August Wilson.

Present status: Disbanded.

Policy: To explore the knowledge of black colored females. ‘Theatre is really a mode that is powerful of and Theatre of Ebony ladies could be the only permanent Black women’s theatre business in Britain. As such we concern ourselves with problems such as for instance Ebony feamales in training, wellness housing, feminism ever sold plus in the Arts. Nastavi čitati “Theatre of Black Women”