Archive Category : Theatre

OBAALA Poetry Theatre: Black Art Gallery, Pamphlet

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Black Jacobins by CLR James, Play Script with edits by Yvonne Brewster

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Black Jacobins by CLR James, Programme Catalogue

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Black Jacobins by CLR James, Progress report from Talawa to Parminder Vir.

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Toussaint L’Ouverture Script and Press Clippings from March 1936 with Paul Robeson as Toussaint

British Centre of the International Theatre Institute - The Present and the Future Report covering the period May 1979 to February 1981

Ghashiram Kotwal Programme Brochure, information about Theatre Academy, the Play, Cast and Contact detials for Dr Mohan Agashe, Vice President Theatre Academy

Staunch Poets and Players Brochure about the Company, Actors and Productions

Staunch Poets and Players: Present The Balm Yard a play by Don Kinch

Commonwealth Institute Arts Centre, Thursday Events curated by Parminder Vir: A Black Poetry Symposium Featuring Imruh Ceasar, T. Bone Wilson, Robert Birmingham, Sebastian Clark, Pula Art Kommune, Jacques Compton, 4 June 1981

Temba Theatre Company Presents Exodus play written by Jamal Ali, Alton Kumalo and Ian Giles and directed by Ian Giles and Alton Kumalo at Commonwealth Arts Centre, February 1982

Edinburgh Festival 1986 - Assembly Theatre Programme

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Black Jacobins by CLR James Press Coverage

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Black Jacobins by CLR James, 21st February to 15th March 1986, Riverside Studios Press Release

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Black Jacobins by CLR James, Biographical Introduction by Margaret Busby, February 1985

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Black Jacobins by CLR James and an exhibition of his life by Creation for Liberation at Riverside Studios, Flyers

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Black Jacobins by CLR James, Press Release, Riverside Studios

The Black Jacobins by CLR James, Interviews with CLR James

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Black Jacobins by CLR James, Biographical information about Director and Cast

Ghashiram Kotwal, A two-act musical play by Vijay Tendulkar, set at the end of the 18th Century in Poona, India. Theatre Academy tours the play in Europe and the UK from August to October, including a performance at the Commonwealth Institute on 23 October 1980

In Transit, play by Don Kinch, directed by Joseph Mydell, produced by Music Theatre Project at the Commonwealth Institute and Staunch Poets and Players in June 1981 Poster

In Transit, play by Don Kinch, directed by Joseph Mydell, produced by Music Theatre Project at the Commonwealth Institute and Staunch Poets and Players in June 1981 Programme

Joseph Mydell in Lyrics of the Hearthside by Paul Laurence Dunbar Programme and Fee Schedule from Richard Brown Associates

Staunch Poets and Players Cast Picture

Staunch Poets and Players production of Two One Act Plays by Don Kinch: Coming Up For Air and Compound Images, directed by Don Kinch and Imru Bakari Caesar, 22 April to 1 June 1985. GLC Funded

Staunch Poets and Players' production of Gather in Your Name by Don Kinch, 5 June 1984, Gala opening and tour dates leaflet

Staunch Poets and Players Promotional Brochure: Company and Creative Services. GLC Funded

International Theatre Institute Centre handwritten notes on companies from Haiti and Cuba, 1981

Camden United Theatre presents A Festival for Camden, 5 to 6 July 1985, featuring Theatro Technis Youth Theatre, Black Women's Poetry Workshop, Camden Women's Bus, Munirh, and The Brent Black Music Co-op

The Economist 2 February 1985 Article on Integrated Casting: All White on the Night mentions Feroza Syal, an actress, Clarke Peters, Derek Bond, Oriental Casting, Art Malik, Asian Theatre Co-operative

Black Mime Theatre: E.D.R. Earliest Date of Release Production directed by Denise Wong, performed by The Ensemble, forward message from Cathy Tyson, 1993. Programme Brochure

GLC Third Black Theatre Season, Produced by Black Theatre Forum at Arts Theatre West End: Little Clay Cart, Tara Arts production from 9 January to 1 February 1986, Press Reviews

Black Mime Theatre: E.D.R. Earliest Date of Release Production directed by Denise Wong, performed by The Ensemble Review by Bill Harpe, The Guardian, 4 November 1993 Review Copies

GLC Third Black Theatre Season, Produced by Black Theatre Forum at Arts Theatre, West End: Rakshasa's Ring, a play by Visakhadatta, Directed by Anton Phillips, starring Renu Setna, Wyllie Longmore from 6 February to 1 March 1986. Press Reviews

British Theatre Association: Membership Brochure

British Asian Theatre Company: A Man I Never Knew, play directed by Raj Patel, 1984. Programme Brochure

Carib Theatre Production: The Amen Corner, play by James Baldwin, directed by Anton Phillips at Tricycle Theatre, January 1987. Press Reviews

Carib Theatre Production: The Amen Corner, play by James Baldwin, directed by Anton Phillips at Tricycle Theatre, 20 January to 7 March 1987. Programme Brochure

Staunch Poets and Players: The Balm Yard, a play written and directed by Don Kinch. Programme Brochure

Double Edge Theatre Company: Remnant, written and directed by Derrick Blackwood, Touring Schedule from 26 September to 12 October 1986, Programme brochure.

Asian Theatre Newsletter Produced by Tara Arts April 1985 Issue.

Black Mime Theatre: E.D.R. Earliest Date of Release Production directed by Denise Wong, performed by The Ensemble, show at The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler's Wells, 10-29 January 1994. Leaflet.

Playboy of the West Indies, a play by Mustapha Matura, directed by Nicolas Kent at Oxford Playhouse from 17 to 24 January 1984. Programme Brochure

Asian Theatre Newsletter Produced by Tara Arts December 1984 Issue.

Black Theatre Co-operative presents Waiting for Hannibal by Yemi Ajibade, directed by Yemi Ajibade and Burt Caesar at The Drill Hall Art Centre, from 3-21 June 1986, Programme Brochure

Umoja Theatre Company Presents Alas, Poor Fred, a play by James Saunders, directed by Carmen Munroe, at Battersea Arts Centre and North Peckham Civic Centre, 4 to 13 June 1987

Temba The Black Theatre Company presents A major programme of plays and workshops, including Chameleon by Michael Ellis and All You Deserve by Debbie Horsfield, September 1985 to January 1986 Programme Leaflet

Temba The Black Theatre Company in Association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre presents Mama Decemba, a play by N.D. Moffatt, directed by Alby James on November 14 1985

Temba The Black Theatre Company: Education and Outreach Tour 6 January to 1 February 1986: A Double Bill Presentation of Chameleon by Michael Ellis and All You Deserve by Debbie Horsfield Tour Schedule

Temba The Black Theatre Company: Forthcoming London Season of Mama Decemba, The Pirate Princess, Chameleon, and All You Deserve in a letter from Alby James, Artistic Director, dated 3 Janaury 1986

Talawa Theatre Company presents An Echo in the Bone, a play by Dennis Scott, directed by Yvonne Brewster at The Drill Hall Arts Centre, 24 June to 19 July 1986, Programme Leaflet and a letter dated 6 June to Parminder Vir, Post GLC

United British Artists in association with Embassy Communication International present The Biko Inquest, a play by Jon Blair and Norman Fenton, directed by Albert Finney at Riverside Studios, 27 January to 4 March 1984 Programme Brochure

Club MC Riverside Studios by arrangement with LWT and Channel 4, hosted by Pretty Boy Wayne featuring The Dynamic 3, Banana Boat Company, Shikisa, Yetunde Otuwehinmi, Alumni, plus Benjamin Zephaniah, 15-19 July 1986

Two Tone Theatre presents a dramatised reading of The Biko Inquest by Jon Blair and Norman Fenton, a copy of the play.

Riverside Studios Montly Newsletter May 10th Anniversary Issue

Riverside Studios: The State of Play, A symposium on new theatre in Britain, 30 to 31 August 1986. Leaflet

The Sistren Theatre Collective, United Kingdom Tour 1983 Committee Funding Proposal to the Greater London Council, Ethnic Arts Sub-Committee, plus a copy of a handwritten letter from Carmen Munroe to Parminder Vir, 26 May 1983

The Sistren Theatre Collective: First UK Tour presenting QPH and Bellywoman Bangarang itinerary from 25 August to 29 September 1983

The Sistren Theatre Collective: UK Tour August to September 1983 Programme Booklet

The Sistren Theatre Collective: Sistern Magazine April 1986, published in Jamaica

The Sistren Theatre Collective: European Tour, London to Birmingham, Manchester to Wolverhampton, Amsterdam to Berlin, August to October 1983 Booklet

The Tagoreans: Letter from Andrew Robinson dated 3 May 1985, with a copy of his review of The Empress and the Munshi by Farrukh Dhondy and Zia Mohyeddin published in The Listener, 1 November 1984

Tara Arts Group: This Story's Not For Telling, a show devised by Tara Arts in collaboration with Anuradha Kapur, Associate Professor, National School of Drama, New Delhi. Show on tour at the Tara Arts Centre, 30 September-5 October and at the Oval House, London, 16-20 October. Programme Booklet

Tara Arts Group: Funding Appeal application for Tara Arts Centre

Tara Arts Group: Tara Arts Centre opens with an arts programme from January to March 1986, Programme Brochure

GLC Third Black Theatre Season, Produced by Black Theatre Forum at Arts Theatre, West End: Miti Ki Gadi - The Little Clay Cart by Tara Arts Gropu, Programme Brochure

Tara Arts Group: Meet Me, a play by Jatinder Verma, developed in 1983 and presented at the Tara Arts Centre

Tara Arts Group: Inkalaab 1919, a play by Jatinder Verma

Tara Arts Group: Tara Arts Centre, Contemporary Asian Arts Season, September to October 1985, Programme Brochure

Tara Arts Group: Anklets of Fire, a play adapted by Jatinder Verma and directed by Yogesh Bhatt

Tara Arts Group: Tara in Education Sepoy's Salt, Captain's Malt, a play by Rukhsana Ahmed, Leaflet

Two French Shorts: A chance to see two plays by new French Writers: Travor Laird in Twilight Zone, a play by Bernard-Marie Koltes, Almeida Theatre Company Production from 24 Janaury to 11 February 1984 at Old Red Lion.

GLC Second Black Theatre Season: Press Review by Harwant Bains of Vigilantes, a play by Farrukh Dhondy, produced by Asian Co-operative Theatre, 22 February 1985

GLC Second Black Theatre Season: Colin Shearman on problems facing black plays and players, features Alby James, published in Stage 1985

GLC Second Black Theatre Season: Article by Naseem Khan on the emergence of Asian Theatre in Britain, published in New Statesman, 1 February 1985

Where There is Darkness, a play by Caryl Phillips, directed by Peter James at Lyric Studio from 4 February to 6 March 1982

GLC Black Theatre Forum Open Membership Meeting held on 16 February 1986 at Tara Arts Centre, Agenda and Discussion Paper to Parminder Vir dated 10 February 1986

The Staunch Poet and Players present Prophet Without Honour by Don Kinch. Copy of the Play

GLC Third Black Theatre Season: The Pirate Princess, a Jamaican Pantomime by Barbara Gloudon, Music by Felix Cross, Co-directed by Alby James and Paulette Randall, at The Arts Theatre, 5 -29 March 1986, Programme

GLC Third Black Theatre Season: The Pirate Princess, a Jamaican Pantomime by Barbara Gloudon, Music by Felix Cross, Co-directed by Alby James and Paulette Randall, at The Arts Theatre, 5 -29 March 1986, Programme

The Market Theatre of Johannesburg presents Born in the R.S.A., directed by Barney Simon, at The Tricycle Theatre, June 1986

GLC Third Black Theatre Season: Race Equality Unit Assessment of the Third Black Theatre Season Report, 1986

Foco Novo and Birmingham Rep Studio Theatre present The Lower Depths - An East End Story by Tunde Ikoli, at Tricycle Theatre from 8 April to 3 May 1986

GLC Third Black Theatre Season: The Little Clay Cart by Tara Arts Group at The Arts Theatre, 9 January to 1 February 1986 Programme Brochure

Changing Woman Theatre Presents Patterns a play by Barbara Burford, at The Drill Hall and The Oval House, October 1984

GLC Second Black Theatre Season: Temba Theatre Company, Asian Co-operative Theatre, Carib Theatre Productions, produced by Anton Phillips, at The Arts Theatre, from 9 January to 30 March 1985, Programme Brochure

GLC Second Black Theatre Season: Asian Co-operative Theatre presents Vigilantes by Farrukh Dhondy at The Arts Theatre, from 6 February to 2 March 1985, Programme

Black Theatre Co-operative presents Nevis Mountain Dew, a play by Steve Carter, directed by Rufus Collins, Programme Notes, 25-29 October 1985

The Tricycle Theatre presents The National Theatre of Brent production of The Brent Passion, from 8 April, 1987

Hampstead Theatre and BBC TV Co-production: Kissing God, devised and directed by Phil Young, starring Feroza Syal

The Women's Playhouse Trust presents Spell 7 by Ntozake Shange at Donmar Warehouse Theatre, from 27 March to 4 May 1985

Charabanc Theatre Company: Letter from Administrator to Parminder Vir post GLC

Riverside Studios Folder

Moon On A Rainbow Shawl by Errol John, at Theatre Royal Stratford East, directed by Errol John, from 15 March to April 1986 as part of GLC Farewell Festival

GLC Third Black Theatre Season, Produced by Black Theatre Forum at Arts Theatre, West End: Rakshasa's Ring, directed by Anton Phillips, starring Renu Setna, from 6 February to 1 March, Programme Brochure

GLC Third Black Theatre Season, Produced by Black Theatre Forum at Arts Theatre, West End: Rakshasa's Ring, directed by Anton Phillips, starring Renu Setna, from 6 February to 1 March, Leaflet

Alterations a play by Michael Abbensetts at the Theatre Royal Stratford, 1986

Black Theatre Season 1989: Produced by the Black Theatre Forum, at the Shaw Theatre, presents Dog by Dennis Scott, Lazarus and His Beloved by Kahlil Gibran, and Beef Chiken by Derek Walcott

The New Shaw Theatre Company presents The Negro Ensemble Company Production of Home by Samm-Art Williams at the Shaw Theatre, from 28 May to 15 June 1985

The Wooster Group at Riverside Studios on 21 August to 6 September 1986, Press Relase, Programme and Press articles

Jagran, an awakeningTheatre of the Oppressed, Director Aloke Roy, New Delhi, Brochure 1983

Black Theatre Forum - Open Membership Meeting 16 February 1986 at Tara Arts Group, Minutes of the meeting. Chairperson, Alby James, Treasurer Jatinder Verma

Old Story Time, a play by Trevor Rhone, starring Mona Hammond and Rudolph Walker at the Theatre Royal Stratford from 13 September to 13 October 1984 as part of the Centenary Season

Commonwealth Arts Centre and London International Mime Festival present Jagran: Theatre of the Oppressed at the Commonwealth Institute from 2 -4 February 1984, Programme

GLC First Black Theatre Season at the Arts Theatre: Outlaw, written by Michael Abbensetts, directed by Robert Gillespie, a Carib Theater Productions, at The Arts Theatre from 15 November to 2 December 1983, Leaflet

GLC First Black Theatre Season at the Arts Theatre featuring Black Theatre Co-operative, Inventory Productions, Carib Theatre Productions and Black Women Time Theatre from 4 October to 23, December 1983, Programme