The production presented a series of dance pieces covering 30 years of the company's productions, and included the ground-breaking 1960 choreography piece,...

The piece follows the story of a Black man's journey from East London, who is on a global quest to find his spiritual...

The production (which offered the organiser the opportunity to publicise the Second World Black and African Festival of Culture and the Arts in Lagos) displayed a number of traditional dances from...

This was a 'historical & cultural pageant' presented by the West Indian Students Centre Folk Group exploring the experience of slavery in the West Indies through songs, poetry and...

Set in Jamaica in 1937, this non-naturalistic play explores the history of Black people and their oppression. It starts with a nine nights ceremony for the death of its central character, Crew. This...

This production by a Theatre-in-Education company explored the story of Olaudah Equiano, who was born in the Ibo tribal land of Nigeria and sold into slavery. The play follows his journey from Africa...

The play explores the history of the transatlantic slave trade by examining the political set-up in Britain and the practice among slavers in London, Liverpool and...

This play focuses on the repercussions following the brutal killing of 130 slaves thrown into the sea from the slave ship Zong. The show, produced as part of the celebrations for 2007 Black History...

A folk/rock-fairytale Christmas musical, it takes place, to quote the programme, ‘in and around Strawberry Palace in Strawberry Land in the Land of Fantasia' and then 'the Mongoose Territory and...

Based on a Ghanaian folktale, the play tells the story of Anowa, a beautiful girl who leaves behind her family and dancer-priestess destiny, to marry the handsome Kofi. The story reflects a familiar...

Presented as 'the first West Indian-English pantomime', this production by Dark and Light presented Anansi, the Jamaican 'half-man, half-spider' folk hero, living in Brixton with his family and...

First performed at the Almost Free Theatre in 1972, the play is a romantic comedy set in St Paul's, Bristol, during the late 1960s. Focusing on the entwined relationships within a West Indian family,...