Nevis Mountain Dew by Steve Carter. The play is set in the Queens district of New York during the 1950s. Jared Philibert is celebrating his fiftieth birthday and the mood of the occasion intensifies...
No Place To Be Nice by Frank McField. The story of Price, an unsuccessful business man who aspires to greater things. His life is a round of never-ending, ominous schemes witnessed patiently by his...
Redemption Song by Edgar Nkosi White. The play is set in Redemption, a village on a Caribbean island. It is a modern version of traditional Jamaican Jonkunnu masquerade, depicting a love triangle and...
Money To Live by Jacqueline Rudet. The play tells the story of the underpaid, yet independent, Charlene. Her vivacious friend Judy persuades Charlene to join her in the dubious career of stripper and...
Ritual by Edgar Nkosi White. The play examines the multiplicity of ritual: rituals of survival, both physical and spiritual experienced by Black people in Britain, as Barzey, a Youth Worker in a...
Slipping Into Darkness by Jamal Ali. A rich, poetic monologue delivered as a rap, turning a harsh eye on the underside of modern Britain. Director: Malcolm Frederick. Cast: Calvin Simpson. Performed...
Paper and Stone by Zindikas Macheol. A play with music that follows three Black women on a journey through denial, innocence, experience and finally self-recognition. Brenda craves independence from...
Splendid Mummer (The Life of Ira Aldridge) by Lonne Elder III. The play traces the life of celebrated Black actor Ira Aldridge from his youth in New York to his eventual rise to stardom in Europe...
Song of a Bluefoot Man by James Berry. The play tells the story of a Jamaican traveller and the people he meets, the things he sees, and his dreams. His story is told in a series of encounters, some...
Passports to the Promised Land by Felix Cross. Eighteen-year-old Jordan leaves the Caribbean for England to search for his father. But rather than reaching England his journey leads him unexpectedly...
A day of performances, music and theatre from some of the brashest contemporary Black British artists held at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Rooms, and following the NITRO BEAT festival 2000,...