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Representation in Theatre

23rd January 2024

In April 2023, as part of the V&A’s Performance Festival, a group of leading theatre practitioners came together to discuss representation i...

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in Asian Voices, Black Voices, Criticism, Education, Feminism, Programming, Theatre Companies

Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu

1st April 2022

INTERVIEW: TRISTAN FYNN-AIDUENU. Writer and director Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu grew up in a Ghanaian household in South London, and discovered drama as a ...

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in Black Voices, Directors, Playwrights

TheatreVoice Archive: Mustapha Matura

9th April 2020

ARCHIVE INTERVIEW: MUSTAPHA MATURA AND NICOLAS KENT. When Mustapha Matura died in October 2019, he had become one of the most important dramatists in ...

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in Adaptation, Black Voices, Directors, Irish Drama, Playwrights

Death of a Salesman cast

20th December 2019

INTERVIEW: DEATH OF A SALESMAN CAST. Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell’s revelatory Death of a Salesman cast the Loman clan as an African-Am...

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in 20th-Century Drama, Actors and Performers, American Drama, Black Voices

Lynn Nottage

30th May 2019

INTERVIEW: LYNN NOTTAGE. Ahead of Sweat‘s transfer to the West End, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage talks to New Yor...

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in American Drama, Black Voices, New Writing, New York and Broadway, Playwrights

John Kani

11th April 2019

INTERVIEW: JOHN KANI. South African actor and playwright John Kani looks back over his life with Matt Trueman, focusing on the way art grounded his ac...

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in 21st-Century Drama, Actors and Performers, Black Voices, New Writing, Playwrights, South African Theatre

Sharon D. Clarke

13th December 2018

INTERVIEW: SHARON D. CLARKE. As she storms the West End with a revelatory performance in Caroline or Change, musical stalwart Sharon D. Clarke discuss...

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in Actors and Performers, Black Voices, Musicals