Munirah Theatre Company
This chapter records the history of Munirah Theatre Company, a choreopoetry troupe formed in 1983 whose members included Maureen ‘Talibah’ Hawkins, Michelle Matherson, Sherma Springer, A-dZiko Simba, Hazel Williams, and administrator Marjorie James. In th
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Black British Women’s Theatre
Nicola Abram
Black British Women’s Theatre Intersectionality, Archives, Aesthetics
Nicola Abram University of Reading Reading, UK
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Acknowledgements
I begin with thanks to the various editors and editorial assistants I’ve had contact with at Palgrave Macmillan over the years, for seeing this book through from proposal to print: your clear guidance and good-natured communications smoothed the process and expertly ensured its completion. And thanks to the reviewers, especially for encouraging the focus on archival materials: you truly helped to make this book this book. All errors that remain are of course my own; I am and will ever be learning. There would be no book at all without the playwrights and practitioners who welcomed me into their homes and workplaces, gave time and energy to telephone calls, Skype conversations and e-mail exchanges, and excavated memories and ephemera: SuAndi OBE, Bernardine Evaristo MBE, Maureen ‘Talibah’ Hawkins, Patricia St. Hilaire, Marjorie James, Zindika Kamauesi, Michelle Matherson, June Reid, A-dZiko Simba, Hazel Williams, and Denise Wong. Your pioneering activities gave vigour to British culture and society, and your generous permission to reproduce archival materials gives colour and life to the pages that follow. Thanks to the performers Cin
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