... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... international tour, which traces the intimate link between a people and their culture through all the vicissitudes of exile, slavery and migration. Central to this cultural survival is the drum, its versatility of sound and rhythm wonderfully demon strated ...

... sit uation with demands for cash, clothes and ciggies in exchange for sex. Gradually she turns her admirer into submissive slavery before her final encounter with the mysterious Mr C, a beautifully poised cameo by Michael Roberts as a one-time lover of ...

... boats, and the auction of a female slave, bought by Whitman in an agony of guilty conscience over his failure to speak out on slavery. The second half begins with a moving glimpse of the carnage of the Civil War, with Whitman vis iting the field hospitals ...