26 plays bibliography Fred D'Aguiar John Agard Michael Abbensetts(Guyana,1938) A contact: productions orhard-to-findpublications,please contribute detailsordocumentaryevidenceof bibliography ofproducedandpublishedplaysorcould present day. Ifyou wouldlikeacopyoftheextensive Black theatreinBritainfromtheearliesttimesto Museum aspartofitsstrategybettertodocument Britain, whichisbeingdevelopedbytheTheatre black (Britishorotherwise)playwrightproducedin material -scripts,publicity, programmes-onany project tocollectinformationanddocumentary This bibliographyformsasmallpartofmuchlarger regularly updatedon: known, nexttotheirname.Thebibliographyis and countryofbirthplaywrightisgiven,where published inLondonunlessotherwiseindicated.Year Edgar White.Allbooksshouldbeassumedto included inthelistingsofBlackBritishplaywrightse.g. resident intheUSorCaribbean,theyhavebeen formerly basedinBritainthoughtheymaynowbe (Bonnie Greer),orhasbeensubstantiallyproduced though African(BiyiBandele)orAmericanbybirth company. WhereawriterisbasedprimarilyinBritain which usuallyappearsinbracketswiththeproducing differs substantiallyfromthefirstproductiondate, a seconddatethisindicatesthatthepublication given below(e.g.FaberorAuroraMetro)isfollowedby produced -inBritain.Wherethepublisher’s name work hasbeenpublished-andinmostcases i.e. African-CaribbeanandAsianplaywrightswhose The followingbibliographyliststheworkofthoseblack email: Cheryl Robson,AuroraMetro,2000, published inBlackandAsianPlaysAnthologyed. This bibliographyisarevisedversionoftheone Performance by SusanCroft,CuratorofContemporary Black PlaywrightsinBritainPrint Rukshana Ahmad Tariq Ali(1943) Moscow Gold Black andAsianWomen Song foraSanctuary A JamaicanAirmanForeseesHis Death Odessa andtheMagicGoat El Dorado In theMood Alterations Also Samba Sweet Talk Helen Rose,Faber, 2000 Michael AbbensettsFourPlays, Necklaces Iranian Nights Yvonne Brewster, Methuen, 1993 Sweet Talk [email protected] (Tricycle) 1980.BothMethuen. (Theatre Royal,StratfordEast)allin (Talawa) NHB,1992 (New End,1978) (Royal Court)1973 (Hampstead) [email protected] (RSC) NHB, 1990 (with HowardBrenton), NHB,1989 www.susan.croft.btinternet.co.uk (Kali, 1990alsoradio) ed. KhadijaGeorge,AuroraMetro,1993 in Plays ForChildren Oberon, 2001 in Black Plays3 in Six Playsby ed. ed. Nkemba Asika(akaFrankJohn) Mulk RajAnand Karim Alrawi(Egypt,1953) Paul Boakye Sudha BhucharandKristineLandon-Smith, Gurpreet KaurBhatti Wayne Buchanan Biyi Bandele(Nigeria,1967) Parv Bancil Harwant Bains(1963) B Ruth Carter C Trish Cooke(1962) Women Maya Chowdhry Shango Baku(Trinidad) orange lady under Bhuchar) Untouchable Migrations, A ColderClimate Snogging Ken No PlaceLikeHome & RobynSlovo,Women's Press Livewires,1987 Second Wave Young Women Playwrights ed. KateHarwood,NHB,1990ext. in Back StreetMammy Young Women Playwrights individually AuroraMetro,2001 Plays Anthology Boy withBeer Wicked Games Hammersmith co-production,2001)Methuen,2001 Tamasha, BirminghamRepertoryTheatreandLyric Theatre, stage fromRajshriProductions'film Fourteen Songs,Two Weddings andaFuneral All Tamasha, allNHB1999-2000 Untouchable A Tainted Dawn East 1991) House oftheSun Company) Oberon,2001. (Birmingham RepertoryTheatreCompanyandSoho Deka D Brixton Stories Oroonoko Death CatchestheHunter Resurrections Phil Setren,AuroraMetro,1998 Under TheirInfluence Yvonne Brewster, Methuen,1993 Two Horsemen Marching forFausa Crazyhorse Anthology Made inEngland Indian Summer Blood Women oftheDust Rep,1996) NHB2000 A Yearning, Monsoon in Ruby, MyDear Revo One BadCasa Short PlaysforYoung Actors3, Three PlaysofOurTime ed. KhadijaGeorge,AuroraMetro, 1993 (Royal Court)Methuen1988 Oberon, 1999 (Traverse Theatre,1999)Methuen,2001 (radio, 1991)in (RSC,1999) AllAmberLanePress ed. CherylRobson,AuroraMetro,2000 Playwrights Press,1986 Ugly Rumours Theatre) Collateral Damage (self-published, nodate) (Paines Plough)Faber, 1997 from Lorca’s (novel 1940adaptedbyTamasha, 1989–see from MulkRajAnand(RiversideStudios,1989) (with Brenton)Oberon,2000 (Talawa, 1994) (Gate, Bush,1994)alsoin NY: SmithandKraus,1997 (Tricycle, 2001)and (Man intheMoon1993) (National Theatre,1995)in (Edinburgh, 1997) ed. CherylRobson,AuroraMetro,2000and (Joint Stock)Methuen,1986 (BAC, 1998) (from MeiraChand,TheatreRoyalStratford Behsharam =(Shameless) (Tamasha, BristolOldVic, 1992),allNHB (Royal Court,1993) in ext. in Oa os,20)in (Oval House,2000) First Run2:NewPlaysbyWriters Yerma (Tricycle) NHB,1998 eds. AnnConsidine &RobynSlovo, Six PlaysbyBlackandAsian (Wild Iris,BAC,1995) Trinidad: BakuPublications,1984 Dead Proud:from SecondWave (with Brenton,delaTour, producedTricycle in Methuen, 1995 (Tamasha, Birmingham Black andAsianPlays Happy Birthday, Mister Hum AapkeHainKoun, Dead Proud:from eds. AnnConsidine Best oftheFest Black Plays3 Making Scenes Black andAsian (adapted forthe ed. ed. Nandita Ghose Dawes, Kwame, Tracey Daley, JoMartinandJosephineMelville, D Errol Hill(Trinidad, 1921alsocarnival theoristandwriter) Patricia Hilaire Gloria Hamilton H Killean Gideon Jamila Gavin G Alfred Fagon(Jamaica1937-86) F Michael Ellis E Bonnie Greer(USA,1948) Ray HarrisonGraham Farrukh Dhondy Dolly Dhingra Grace Dayley Dorcas Faku(withDianeTaylor) Tanika Gupta Ray Grewal Bernardine Evaristo Maud Sulter, HebdenBridge:UrbanFox,1990 extracts in Pyeyucca Robson, AuroraMetro,1991 Voices, FightingLives:SevenPlaysbyWomen Running Dream Women's PressLivewires,1987 Ishtar Descends poem 'TheRamayana')London:SamuelFrench,2001. (adapted fromtheauthor'sownnovel,are-tellingofepic One Love (Theatre RoyalStratfordEast)Oberon,2002 See underEvaristo Mercy, S Plays: Women attheAlbanyEmpire England isDePlaceforMe Sheffield: SheffieldAcademicPress,1990 Wave Plays:Women attheAlbanyEmpire 2000, 11 JosephineHouse Chameleon Munda Negra 2002 Graeae Plays:NewPlaysRedefiningDisability, Sympathy fortheDevil Livingroom A Temporary Rupture Brewster, Methuen,1989 The Bride Romance, Romance Unsuitable Girls, Michelene Wandor, Methuen,1985 Grace's Story West 6,1984 Wenzani: WhatAreYou Doing? Black Man Yvonne Brewster, Methuen,1989andwith Sanctuary, Faber. both The Waiting Room Skeleton, Faber, 2000 Theatre presentstheSir Vigil PartII Methuen, 1993 heffield: SheffieldAcademicPress,1990 Lonely Cowboy (Umoja) extractpublished,details unknown My Dad'sCornerShop (with Hilaire,TheatreofBlackWomen, 1985) (Talawa, 2001)Methuen (from Tagore, SohoTC,1997) both Faber, 1985. Monkey inthestars:aplayforchildren Passion: DiscoursesonBlackwomen’s Creativitye (Cottesloe, 2002)Oberon in ed. JohnAgard,BlackInk,1983 (Temba, 1985)in in (Cockpit, 1986)in Alfred FagonPlays, in Acting Up!:Heresiesvol5.,no.1,issue17 (Theatre RoyalStratfordEast,1993)in (Second Wave, AlbanyEmpire)in Black Plays3 Oberon, 2001 (Cottesloe, NationalTheatre,2000) (Black TheatreCo-Op,1987)Oberon (Black TheatreCo-op,1988)in (Tricycle, 1985)in (Graeae, OvalHouse,1996)in Barry JacksonCommunityTour) (Second Wave) in Black Plays1 ed. Yvonne Brewster, (West 6)Polyptonand (Birmingham Repertory Plays byWomen vol4 Oberon, 2001 ed.Frances Gray, Black Plays1 ed.Frances Gray, The Deathofa Shoot 2Win, ed. Yvonne Second Wave ed. Cheryl Aurora Metro, Second ed. Female ed. Soraya Jinton Jennifer Jordan(aged12) Errol John(Trinidad, 1924-1988) Lennie James Pauline JacobsandtheBemarroSisters J Tunde Ikoli I Tyrone Huggins Basir SultanKazmi(Pakistan,1955) Lisselle Kayla Shan Kahn K Abhijat Joshi Ash Kotak Ayub Khan-Din Jackie Kay(Scotland,1961) Hanif Kuresihi d. Brewster, Methuen,1989 Slovo, Women's PressLivewires,1987 Wave Young Women Playwrights A SliceofLife The LowerDepths Sleeping Policemen Scrape offtheBlack, Man Better Presents the West Indies1976andin Errol Hill,Trinidad: DeptofExtra-MuralStudies,University Lalita's Way Introduction, The ColourBlack The Dispossessed Force Majeure,HastaLuego Faber, 1958 1988, alsoTV1960)Faber1958andin Moon onaRainbowShawl & Stoughton,1990 Young Writers attheRoyalCourt Trial andError Sounds inSession, The ChessBoard, Robyn Slovo,Women's PressLivewires, 1987 Wave Young, Women Playwrights When LastIDidSeeYou Y Office NHB 2000 A ShaftofSunlight, Paul McGilchrist,ACERCentre,1987 Hijra Last DanceatDum-Dum film 1999)NHB, East is “Take-Away” Lizbeth Goodman,Faber, 2000 Generations inMythicWomen /RealWomen ed. and aCompany Twice Over Jill Davis, Chiaroscuro (TheatreofBlackWomen) Sleep With Me London KillsMe Sammy andRosiegetLaid My BeautifulLaundrette All as Borderline Outskirts Birds ofPassage The KingandMe oung People,Faber2002 (Plymouth andBush,2000),Oberon2001 Hanif KureishiPlaysOne, Faber, 2001 ed. J.Gassner, NewHaven:Yale UP, c1964 (1983) (Joint Stock/RoyalCourt)Methuen,1981 Methuen, 1987 (Gay Sweatshop)in (Tamasha, TheatreRoyalStratfordEast,1997, (Royal CourtTheatreUpstairs)in in Faber, 1984 Scn ae,ext.in (Second Wave), (National Youth Theatre)in (National Theatre,1999) International Connections:NewPlaysfor ed.Philip Osment,Methuen,1989 (Scala, 1965)in (screenplay) 1991 (1981) AmberLanePress,1983 in (1980) Pennine Pens,1997 All Faber, 1967 (Tricycle, 1986)in Oberon, 2002 (with HowardBrenton)Methuen,1984 ACER’s BlackYoung Writers’ Awards e (Tamasha, BirminghamRep,1994) (Riverside Studios,1980)Oberon,1999 (screenplay) 1986 (New Ambassadors,1999)NHB ext. in (Royal Court,1958,Almeida (screenplay), 1988 The Yale SchoolofDrama Gay Sweatshop:FourPlays eds. AnnConsidine&Robyn Dead Proud:fromSecond Faber 1998 ed. ElyseDodgson,Hodder eds. AnnConsidine& A Time andaSeasoned. Black Plays1 Dead Proud:fromSecond in Lesbian Playsed. The ObserverPlays, Plays First Lines: ed. Yvonne d.

27 plays bibliography 28 plays bibliography Nigel Moffatt(Jamaica,1954) Michael McMillan Sandra Mundle(aged16) Charles Mulekwa(Nigeria) Mustapha Matura Jenny McLeod(1963) Valerie Mason-John(akaQueenie) Marie Oshodi O V. AmaniNapthali N Afshan Malik M Earl Lovelace L Ann Ogidi(Nigeria,1965) My SontheFanatic Mamma Decemba Asian PlaysAnthology The SchoolLeaver, Philippa Giles,BBCBooks,1990 Brother to On Duty, in The ChainsHaveBeenBrokenButtheDoorsHaven’tOpened A Time ofFire Welcome HomeJacko Meetings Independence Play Mas Rum an’CocaCola All CalderandBoyars,1972 As Time GoesBy My Enemy Indian Black Pieces The Wake Bush Plays,1993 Raising Fires, NHB, 1991 Regiment: ACollectiveCelebration Island Life The Coup, with slightlychangedcontents) Collected Plays, NY: BroadwayPlayPublishing,1984 1984, alsoTV1985) Playboy oftheWest Indies All Methuen1980 Nice Brown GirlintheRing, Heinemann, 1984 Jestina's Calypso My NameisVillage Blood Sweat&Fears Ragamuffin Safar, The NewHardwareStore ed. Yvonne Brewster, Methuen,1989 in The DragonCan'tDance Jeremy Mortimer, BBCBooks, 1988 Ragamuffin New PlaysRedefiningDisability, ACER Centre,1987 Hound David Sulkin,Harlow:Longman, 1986 The SBend Methuen, 1989 ACER’s BlackYoung Writers’ Awards Black Plays2 (Black TheatreCo-Op,1980,alsoTV1984) Parthian, 1999 (1970) (Graeae, OvalHouse,1992)in Akira Press,1986 (1981) AllMethuen,1982 (1974) (TV) in (National Theatre)Methuen,1991 MntosRgmn,18)in (Monstrous Regiment,1987) (Double Edge,1990)Oberon,2002 (radio) in (Royal CtYPT, 1986)in (Inter Action,1970) (Bush, LWT PlaysonStagewinner) (1979) (The Door, BirminghamRep,2000)NHB Methuen 1992(newedition2002 (Royal CourtTheatreUpstairs,1971) all in Debut onTwo (Temba) Faber, 1985 (Lyric Hammersmithandtour)in Black InkCollective, (Royal Court,1976) (screenplay, 1998)allFaber in Young PlaywrightsFestival1988 (Black TheatreCo-op,1979) ed. CherylRobson,AuroraMetro,2000 Jestina's CalypsoandOtherPlays, London: GetaGrip,1999 Black Plays2 (Stratford East,1990) (Carib, 1985) (Tricycle /OxfordPlayhouse, ed. Vicky Licorishand Aurora Metro,2002 ed. GillianHanna, Festival Plays ed. Yvonne Brewster, Graeae Plays: ed. PaulMcGilchrist, 1978 Monstrous ed. Black and ed. Wendy Scott (aged 12) Winsome Pinnock(1961) Dennis Scott(Jamaica)1939-1991 Ayshe Raif(Turkish, UK,1952) R M. NourbeSePhilip Caryl Phillips Mandula Padmanabhan P Saoud SaeedandMarcelBonnefin S Sol River Barry Reckord(Jamaica) Trevor Rhone (Jamaica,1940) Jacqueline Rudet(Britain/Dominica,1962) Beverley Rose Also individually, AuroraMetro,2000 Aurora Metro,2000 Harvest Two CanPlay School’s Out( Old StoryTime Smile Orange Basin in A Hero'sWelcome Yvonne Brewster, Methuen,1993 Talking inTongues Kate Harwood,NHB,1989 A RockinWater Toronto: PlaywrightsCanada,2000 Contemporary African-CanadianDramav1 Harlow: Longman, 1985 An EchoInTheBone Sauce Mules Women e Caving In 1991. Seven PlaysbyWomen Fail/ Safe Café Society, Leave Taking Methuen, 1989 Coups andCalypsos Playing Away The Shelter, Where ThereisDarkness Strange Fruit, Free Credits All in Unbroken To Rahtid Moor Masterpieces Skyvers, Methuen,1986 All in Walk AgainstFear Making Waves 48-98 The LastAdmittanceofMan The WhiteWitch ofRoseHall Women vol5 Money toLive Young Performers Darker theBerry Brewster, Methuen,1987 Plays International Mewe OlugwuandSharonEllis(aged1920) Plays 1, Sol RiverPlaysTwo, (Temba, 1985)in (Clean Break,1996),Faber ed. DavidSulkin,RoyalCourtYPT, 1983 A BlackBritishChildhood Awards in (Royal Court,1963)Penguin,1966 d. KhadijaGeorge,AuroraMetro,1993 in (Soho Poly, 1986)in (Talawa atYoung Vic, 1996) (Phoenix Dance,1997/8) Black andAsianPlaysAnthology (Royal CtTheatreUpstairs,1982) in Plays byWomen vol8e 1980 AllAmberLane, in Samuel French,1981 ed. MaryRemnant,Methuen,1986 (1980, ArtsTheatre,1983)BothLongman,1986 (TV) Faber, 1987 1975) (1970, Tricycle, 1983) 1981 (Black TheatreCo-op,1984)in Oberon, 1998 ed. PaulMcGilchrist,ACERCentre,1987 (1979) BothLongman,1981 First Run:NewPlaysbyWriters in (Second Wave) in ed. SallyGoldsworthy, AuroraMetro,1998 (Women’s PlayhouseTrust, RoyalCt,1989) (1991) (West Yorkshire Playhouse) Black Plays2e (Talawa, 1999)in and in in ed. CherylRobson,AuroraMetro, Black Plays1 Plays forToday (Lyric Studio,1982) Oberon, 2001 in BlackPlays3 Six PlaysbyBlackandAsian Female Voices, FightingLives: in d. Yvonne Brewster, Young Blood:Playsfor ACER’s BlackYoung Writers’ d. MaryRemnant, ed. Yvonne Testifyin’s: ed. ErrolHill, ed. DjanetSears, ed. CherylRobson, ed. Plays by Primary ed. Samuel Selvon Dorothea Smartt Shelley Silas Meera Syal Maud Sulter Derek Walcott (StLucia)1932 W Deepak Verma V D.C Thompson T Angela Turvey Roy Williams Edgar White(Monserratt,1947) How AreWe GoingtoManage? Eldorado West One Writers’ Awards ed. Medusa? MedusaBlack! Falling Cheryl Robson,AuroraMetro,2000 Calcutta Kosher ed. KhadijaGeorge,AuroraMetro,1993 My SisterWife Kendal) 1991 Hysteria Lizbeth Goodman,Faber, 2000 Punjab) London:Methuen,2001. 'Therese Raquin'transposedtoasmalltowninpresent-day production attheLeicesterHaymarketTheatre,EmileZola's Rosamunde Hutte,forthcomingAuroraMetro2003 Plays forYoung People All in A BranchoftheBlue Beef NoChicken Both in O Babylon! The JokerofSeville Morrow, 1973 Both in The LifeandTimes ofJ.Walter Smintheus The Crucificado Today? Is ClassMoreImportantthanRaceforBlacksinBritain The Odyssey, Both NY: FarrarStraussandGiroux,1980 Remembrance Pantomime Cape, 1972 All in Dream onMonkeyMountain Royal Court) Malcochon orSixintheRain Ti JeanandHisBrothers Paul McGilchrist,ACERCentre,1987 Starstruck Souls All Methuen Sing Your HeartOutForTheLads The Gift Clubland Local Boy in Lift Off The “NoBoys”CricketClub Marion Boyars,1985 All in Redemption Song Les femmesnoires The BootDance Rosamunde Hutte,forthcomingAuroraMetro2003 Williams PlaysOne, Three Plays Dream onMonkeyMountainandOtherPlays, Redemption SongandOtherPlays, in (Bush, 2002)Oberon in (New Ambassadors,1999) The JokerofSevilleandOtherPlays, The Crucificado:Two Plays (CD, Tate LiverpoolandBreweryArtsCentre, (Birmingham RepertoryTheatre,2000) Theatre Centre:PlaysforYoung People (Royal Court,2001) ACER’s BlackYoung Writers’ Awards (Hampstead, 2000) 1999 (AlfredFagonAward 1997,Tricycle, 1998) A FineExample (Temba, 1985) Ghostdancing Faber 1993 (TV) in (Keskidee, thenCarib1990) in (Temba) 1984 (Shaw 1989) NY: FarrarStraussandGiroux (Black TheatreCo-op,1984) Black andAsianPlaysAnthology Leeds: PeepalTree Press,1988 Paul McGilchrist,ACERCentre,1987 Six PlaysbyBlackandAsianWomen ed. Methuen, 2002 in (Tamasha TheatreCompany Mythic Women /RealWomen in 1999 (StratfordEast,1996) (New DayCompanyat Theatre Centre: in ACER’s BlackYoung (National Theatre,2002) NY: William Cape, 1979 ed. ed. ed. ed. Century, Guide toWomen Playwrightsfromthe11thto 21st listed pleaseseemy For moreinformationonmanyofthewomenplaywrights Guptara’s (Cassell, 1998,reissuedContinuum2001)andPrabhu 1994), StephenBourne’s inWest IndianLiterature:Theatre Studies Trevor R.Griffiths),thebibliographyinJudyS.J. Stone’s Benjamin Zephaniah(1958) Z the in compilingthisbibliography:CaroleWoddis’ entriesfrom Among othersourcesIhavebeenindebtedtothefollowing NOTE Girls School,Heinemann,1984 scripted byElyseDodgsonwithMarciaSmith,Vauxhall Manor West IndianWomen toBritaininthe1950s Motherland: Devised Plays Zindika (alt.Macheol) Parents Festival 1988 Hurricane Dub Brewster, Methuen,1989 Job Rockin Women Leonora's Dance Rosamunde Hutte,forthcomingAuroraMetro2003 Bloomsbury TheatreGuide1988 Sylvia Wynter(Jamaica) All in Underground The Mummers’Play The Wonderful Year Fun inLethe Marion Boyars,1983 All in Lament forRastafari Trinity –TheLongandCheerfulRoadtoSlavery Like ThemThatDream(ChildrenofOgun) Both Methuen,1984 Double Edge,1988) The NineNight Ritual ByWater Ritual ( Maskarade West Indies,1979 Dept ofExtra-MuralStudies,Universitythe Faber andFaber, 2001 ed. KhadijaGeorge,AuroraMetro,1993 in Black BritishLiterature Theatre Centre:PlaysforYoung People (Riverside, 1987)in Underground: FourPlays Lament forRastafariandOtherPlays, Black TheatreCo-Op,1985)publishedas ed. JeremyMortimer, BBCBooks,1988 (radio, BBC,1988)in (1992) in in She AlsoWrotePlay:anInternational West IndianPlaysforSchools (Black TheatreCo-Op,1983,Keskidee, Black intheBritishFrame Six PlaysbyBlackandAsian (Keskidee, 1977) Black Plays2 (Dangeroo Press,1986). (ed. Woddis and Young Playwrights NY: William Morrow, 1973 (Macmillan, ed. Yvonne ed. Trinidad:

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