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Trojans by Farrukh Dondy. A musical adaptation of the myth of the Trojan women, set in London in the Eighteenth Century and at the time near future. Director: Trevor Laird. Cast: Pauline Black,...
Trinity by Edgar Nkosi White. A play in three parts: Man and Soul, set in a police detention cell during the Notting Hill Carnival; The Case of Dr. Kola, set in a prison in a fictional African...
Fingers Only by Yemi Ajibade. The tale of three pickpockets who live in Lagos during World War II. Director: Mustapha Matura. Cast: Christopher Asante, T-Bone Wilson, Chris Tummings, Shope Shodeinde,...
Welcome Home Kacko by Mustapha Matura. The play is a touching, serious and funny exposé of Rasta righteousness and absurdity with superbly animated argument. The play was first performed in 1979 and...
The Nine Night by Edgar Nkosi White. The play draws inspiration from a Jamaican burial rite, called Nine Nights, which helps troubled souls to cross over into the spirit world. In this play the...
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...
The Tooth Of Crime by Sam Shepard. A reggae-soul musical set in a futuristic world where Hoss, an amalgam of Pop superstar, racing driver and warrior, awaits the arrival of Crow, an upstart...
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...
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. The play portrays Big Walter Lee Younger's family, which at his death is left to decide how to spend a $10,000 life insurance payment. The story unfolds...