Business title: Theatre of Black Ladies

Founders: Bernardine Evaristo, Patricia Hilaire, Paulette Randall

Founded: 1982

Reason: The company founders met at Rose Bruford university, element of an intake that is unusually high of pupils. In their studies they performed programs at Oval House: Prejudice with Patricia Hilaire, Paulette Randall, Robert western, Joan Williams, assisted by Siobhan Lennon and David Sulkin and Coping directed by Yvonne Brewster which involved five women that are black Rose Bruford College and ‘explored the connection between black colored ladies and black colored males in England’. The second show had been developed by and researched with black colored audiences, both 1980. Through their collaboration on last tasks and participation utilizing the Royal Court’s Writers’ Workshops, where Randall’s Fishing and Hilaire’s yet another time had been produced included in the younger Writers’ Festival 1982, they formed a business first to re-stage the one-woman programs they’d developed, for the wider market: Chameleon (Randall ), Hey Brown Girl (Hilaire), Tiger, Teeth Clenched never to Bite (Evaristo, all 1983). Paulette Randall later on withdrew through the business and went on to direct extensively in black colored www.camsloveaholics.com/female/granny theater including with Temba, Nitro/ Ebony Theatre Co-op as well as on a freelance foundation, particularly the work of Wilson august.

Current status: Disbanded.

Policy: To explore the knowledge of black colored females. ‘Theatre is really a effective mode of interaction and Theatre of Ebony ladies may be the only permanent Black women’s theatre business in Britain. Continue reading Theatre of Black Ladies →