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Heather Agyepong on finding her dream role in School Girls
The actress in Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play shares how the show celebrates dark-skinned Black women while having universal themes. Read my full London Theatre interview here
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Tagged africa, beauty, beauty standards, book tickets, colourism, comedy, ghana, Heather Agyepong, idris elba, interview, london, london theatre, lyric hammersmith, mean girls, play, race, school girls, school girls or the African Mean Girls Play, the power, theatre
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Custodians of the Wild
In southern Africa, park rangers like Corporal John Mokgale are fighting to save some of the world’s rarest animals from poachers. Read my full Oryx magazine interview here
Posted in Journalism
Tagged africa, animal, article, conservation, corporal john mokgale, e Greater Kruger National Park, elephant, extinction, field ranger, interview, magazine, oryx, park ranger, poacher, poaching, Protected Area Integrity, rhino, save, Southern African Wildlife College, tourist, travel, united for wildlife, visit, wild animal
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Mouthful, Trafalgar Studios
Metta Theatre’s didactic short plays evening takes a rigorously Poppins approach: a spoonful of drama to help the medicine go down. The sobering facts – “We need to produce more food globally by 2050 than we have done in the whole … Continue reading
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Tagged africa, bola agbaje, chocolate, clare bayley, colombia, crisis, drama, drink, dystopian, eat, eating, fair trade, farm, farming, food, future, global, horror, inua ellams, mouthful, neil labute, nigeria, play, production, review, science, scientist, theatre, trafalgar studios, tunisia, war, water, world
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The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco, Gate Theatre
The quest for liberation is popular dramatic terrain, but the Gate Theatre’s “Freedom Burning” season shifts focus to the aftermath. What do you do when the fight is over, and how can you be sure the sacrifice was worthwhile? It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged a human being died that night, africa, athol fugard, cave, cell, colonial, drama, fight, freedom, freedom fighter, gate theatre, history, identity, independence, jail, london, mugabe, national theatre studio, Nicholas Wright, play, prison, prisoner, review, revolution, story, the island, The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco, theatre, war, zimbabwe
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The House That Will Not Stand, Tricycle Theatre
Bigger is better in the Tricycle’s latest piece of reclaimed black history. African-American writer Marcus Gardley’s stimulating play, which transports Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba to 1836 New Orleans and a significant shift in the evolving racial hierarchy, begins … Continue reading
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Tagged africa, african, african-american, america, black, drama, family, free, freedom, heritage, history, house of bernarda alba, husband, Indhu Rubasingham, london, lorca, louisiana, magic, marcus gardley, marriage, marry, mistress, music, new orleans, placage, play, prejudice, race, racial, review, singing, sister, skin colour, slave, slavery, song, spirit, spiritual, the arts desk, the house that will not stand, the louisiana purchase, theartsdesk, theatre, tricycle theatre, usa, voodoo, wife, yankee
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Sympathy for the devil
Following a slew of political dramas that look to the past or murky present, Anders Lustgarten has taken an intriguing approach by examining a possible future in his latest work, although – audiences be warned – it is a piece … Continue reading
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Tagged africa, Anders Lustgarten, black jesus, finborough, hampstead theatre, mugabe, Nicholas Wright, play, royal court, theatre, zimbabwe
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