... having returned to Barbados, tries to sell her into slavery when he believes her presence might jeopardise his marriage to the Governor's daughter Narcissa. The play takes a firm stand against slavery and shows Yarico to be more cultured and noble than ...

... explaining the sad fate of Molly the Cow who couldn't cope with the take over, and preferred pretty ribbons (the badges of slavery) to freedom. However, the problem with these extracts is that the actors needed to hold the delicate balance between reading ...

... piece of acting Paul Daneman as the Negro, Frederick Douglas, shows the great humanitarian argument for the abolition of slavery. There is an obvious devotion to Lincoln in Nancie Jackson's interpretation of the maid, and Jean Webster-Brough gives a brief ...

... script, which interrupts the con temporary storyline with stylised sequences depicting the roots of prej- udice in African slavery in this Youngblood/Kaleidoscope Theatre Company production. Taylor's technique is still a little raw; though often punchy ...

... transports two black youths (James Jarman and Lucien Williams), bunking off from a history lesson, back in time to a world of slavery and oppression. On their way, the lads encounter doughty, black women who changed the course of social history: abolitionist ...

... College) and it is a delight from beginning to end. Although the evening opens on a rather sombre note with a potted history of slavery from choreographer David Leo Hamilton, this stockily-built dancer proves fascinating to watch, particularly in his own pieces ...

... An Echo In The Bone DRILL HALL THE SETTING is Jamaica in 1937 a century after the formal abolition of slavery on the island. But economic enslavement persists, and Dennis Scott's compelling play does a marvel lous job of placing that continued oppression ...

... and contrasts their perspectives. It is a skeleton family too, with grandfather Buks (Thane Bettany) who has known only slavery, raising coming-of-age Veronica (Wendy Baxter), a young woman with an ambition to sing. Bettany also plays the narrator. The ...

... through his early years in Portsmouth, his troubled childhood as a result of his father's imprisonment for debt and his own slavery in a blacking warehouse, experiences which enabled him to write so movingly of the social conditions of his times. Illustrated ...

... as the starting-point for his sombre and richly textured play. The Rakestraw family seeks escape from a dark age of fear, slavery and mysteri ous taxation laws through belonging to the millenial Great Society, presided over by the priest-figure, John Nameless ...

... Cradles, all concerned must be applauded for the way t the plight of the long unsung victims of what was virtually i legalised slavery is presented. I Far from having happy family i lives in perpetual sunshine, s most of the migrants suffered untold horrors ...

... energy that you could probably run a township off it. The name comes from the footwear black workers wore when in virtual slavery in the country's mines. Banned from talking, they would slap their boots and jangle their chains to send messages. In time ...