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Pinnock, Winsome

Dramas & Plays

Faber&Faber

The first drama anthology by Black and Asian women writers.

Six Plays By Black and Asian Women Writers (Plays by Women)

Cooke, Trish

Ahmad, Rukhsana

Chowdhry, Maya

Aurora Metro Books

Clean Break is a British theatre company set up in 1979 by two women in prison. It exists to tell the stories of women with experience of the criminal justice system and to transform women's lives through theatre.
Over 40 years, Clean Break has commissioned some of the most progressive and brilliant women writers to write ground-breaking plays, alongside developing the writing skills of the women they work with in its London studios and in prisons. This is a collection of monologues from this canon.
Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women celebrates the opportunities inherent when women represent themselves. Offering female performers a diverse set of monologues reflecting a range of characters in age, ethnicity and lived experience, the material is drawn from a mix of published and unpublished works. 
This book is for any performer who does not see themselves represented in mainstream plays, for lovers of radical women's theatre and for rebels everywhere who believe that the act of speaking and being heard can create change.

Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women: Celebrating 40 Years of Clean Break Theatre Company (Audition Speeches)

Daniels, Sarah

Wallace, Naomi

Lavery, Bryony

Kirkwood, Lucy

Hims, Katie

Franzmann, Vivienne

Birch, Alice

Mahfouz, Sabrina

Bruce, Deborah

Reynolds, Anna

King, Daisy

Lomas, Laura

Caulfield, Annie

Sarma, Ursula Rani

Lenkiewicz, Rebecca

Silas, Shelley

Coghlan, Lin

Ikoko, Theresa

Moss, Chlöe

Prichard, Rebecca

Marshall, Natasha

El-Bushra, Suhayla

Brogan, Linda

Seaton, Somalia

Chandler, Katherine

Hale, Sonya

Odimba, Chinoyerem

Brown, Danni

Dunne, Raina

Holborough, Jacqueline

Lloyd-Malcolm, Morgan

Owen, Rena

Uwayo, Sandrine

Methuen Drama

Review\n"A deep dive into the murky waters of the legacy of Britain's role in the slave trade... The rich depth of Pinnock's writing... It is an ugly truth, but, somehow, Winsome Pinnock has made it beautiful." ― The Stage\n"A swirling journey through the light and shade of black history." ― Guardian\nOn the set of a new film about Victorian artist J.M.W. Turner, young actress Lou is haunted by an unresolved history. Meanwhile, in 1840, Londoners Lucy and Thomas try to come to terms with the meaning of freedom. 
Moving between London past and present, Winsome Pinnock's astonishing play retells British history through the prism of the slave trade. Fusing fact with fiction, and the powerfully personal with the fiercely political, Rockets and Blue Lights asks who owns our past – and who has the right to tell its stories? 
Winner of the 2018 Alfred Fagon Award, the play opened at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2020, directed by Miranda Cromwell. It transferred to the National Theatre, London, in 2021.

Rockets and Blue Lights (National Theatre edition)

Nick Hern Books

Enid is one of those West Indians who came to England in the fifties, determined to become “little Miss English.” Abandoned by her husband, she has struggled to bring up her two daughters to live her dream. Leave Taking is a beautifully observed, deeply moving account of what it is like to be caught in alienated limbo.

Leave Taking

'I am the slave ship. Wrecked. Empty. I am a shark, livid with the desire for blood. I am the sea, boiling with fury.' Amid the gloom of Victorian England, a black sailor, Thomas, prepares to take one last voyage, while an ageing painter, J.M.W. Turner, seeks artistic inspiration in a half-remembered story. In twenty-first-century London, an actress finds herself handcuffed by history - two centuries after abolitionists won her ancestors their freedom. Winsome Pinnock's astonishing play retells British history through the prism of the slave trade. Fusing fact with fiction, past with present, the powerfully personal with the fiercely political, Rockets and Blue Lights asks who owns our past - and who has the right to tell its stories? Winner of the 2018 Alfred Fagon Award, the play opened at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in March 2020, directed by Miranda Cromwell. 'The godmother of Black British playwrights' Guardian

Rockets and Blue Lights

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