Hidden Gems: Contemporary Black British Plays

by Deirdre Osborne

Overview

B is for Black by Courttia Newland
Moj of the Antarcticby Mojisola Adebayo
The Sons of Charlie Paora by Lennie James
Brown Girl in the Ringby Valerie Mason-John
Something Dark by Lemn Sissay
35 Centsby Paul Anthony Morris

This distinctive new volume of drama by black British playwrights exemplifies how experiments with form, subject-matter and genre can serve to centralise the experiences of black people in local, national and international contexts of culture, politics and performance. Each play is critically introduced, to create an anthology of interactions - between the people who have long championed the work through teaching and writing about it and the people who produce, perform and explain their intentions behind it.

Something Dark by Lemn Sissay is now a set text on Edexcel’s syllabus for A level English Literature and English Language and Literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781840028430
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/01/2009
Series:	Oberon Modern Playwrights
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Deirdre Osborne is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has edited an anthology of new Black British plays and critical essays titled Hidden Gems (2008). She is currently writing a monograph, Critically Black: Black British Dramatists and Theatre in the New Millennium (Manchester University Press) and is editor of a forthcoming book of critical essays and writers' reflections, Contradictions and Heritages: Contemporary Black British Women's Writing. She teaches numerous undergraduate courses including African American theatre history, culture and performance, modernism and post-colonial theatre.