... Up From Slavery THIS IS an interesting one man show that never seems to get going. It tells the story of the first black principal of a major US educational college who rose from slavery to be the first black man to lunch at the White House with Theodore ...

... the world premiere of Gabriel Gbadamosi's powerful slavery play Abolition. Gbadamosi, born in London of an Irish mother and Nigerian father, has chosen an interesting framework to look at slavery from both an historic and a moral standpoint. The action ...

... La Malinche THE TITLE of this unusual dance drama with songs is the name of the Aztec princess old into slavery and given to Cortes. She became his interpreter, lover and political counsellor, was baptised into Catholicism and helped him conquer Mexico ...

... KARTAL EQUITY MEMBERS this week voted to support the view that using animals in circus acts was as horrendous as hanging or slavery, despite being told that the ban on animal acts in circuses, imposed by many local authorities, threatens the future of the ...

... before a committed audience. Alan Thornhill's biographical drama based on the Parliamentarian who sponsored the abolition of slavery, against career odds, reeks of purpose in Alby James' new production for matinee perform ances and misses the theatrical bait ...

... 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 ...

... famous and feted in her day but later neglected, perhaps because of her champion ing of women's rights, her anti-war and anti-slavery sentiments and her belief in free love. Little is known of her life, except that at one time she was a government spy, and ...

... exploitation vivisection and blood sports, fur trade, whale oil, and intensive farming is as great an injustice as were black slavery and child labour. Maggie Riley is sadly confused. She cannot invalidate the ideals of those of us who abhor the fur trade ...

... 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 ...

... fully authentic but humorous and swashbuckling account of the intrepid voyagers' adventures, involving Turks, Red Indians and slavery in an amazing Arabian Nights epic. Michael Howarth was producer and narrator, Barry Andrews (John Smith), Walter Brown and ...

... Eva and Jo Sale, as Eliza, while Richard Chance's Simon Legree conjures forth everything that is evil in the dark days of slavery in the faraway kingdom of ol' Kentucky. Belinda Lock's exquisite costumes and masks in this inset production, as well as those ...

... Initially Brian escapes and is later joined by his cat William who persuades one of Nem's original inhabitants to break away from slavery and help. In a scries of adventures Brian and William try to save Earth from destruction while at home his parents call first ...