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Theatre The Sugar Wife Soho Theatre , London January 11 Author : Elizabeth Kuti Director : Lynne Parker Producer :

... agree to host two visitors – the Englishman Alfred and the freed slave Sarah , both on a mission to hasten the abolition of slavery – the conflict between ideals and realities intensifies . Behind the austere furnishings of the Tewkley abode , designed by ...

Published: Thursday 02 February 2006
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 324 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

Schemes provide Euro writers with UK platform

... is Little Angels , which was awarded the prize for theatre and is written by Marco Baliani . play , , follows the story of slavery in West Africa to modern London . It features music and dance by Sierra Leone artists Landing Mane and Usifu Jalloh . All ...

Published: Thursday 18 March 2004
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 373 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Light side of sex tourism offers uneasy comedy

... serious side of sex tourism . We hear of one of the original Jamaican ‘ beach who is now dead from Aids and there are echoes of slavery when Maggie ties up one of the young boys and whips him but generally one has to wonder why Gupta chose to focus so much on ...

Published: Thursday 17 August 2006
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 350 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

Diversity event to see black actress ‘white up’ as Queen

... in which a black actress will be ‘ whited to play the Queen – to coincide with the 200 th anniversary of the abolition of slavery and a major conference discussing diversity within the arts . The production , which has been remixed to create a hip hop ...

Published: Thursday 02 August 2007
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 450 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Harrowing success in elegant distress

... Katie new production is set in the grim , concrete of a ferry terminal , where the women of Troy wait to be shipped off into slavery , while minor functionaries of the Greek war machine bustle about with clipboards , performing the bureaucratic tasks of ...

Published: Thursday 06 December 2007
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 410 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

The emperor strikes back

... land under a whip cracking warder ( brilliantly realised in Fin demanding choreography ) , folk memories of being sold into slavery , and the dazzling dervish dance of a Congolese witch doctor , again played by Dwayne Barnaby . Richard original design places ...

Published: Thursday 06 September 2007
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 392 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

showpeople

... the abolition of the slave trade , John latest play Sold , written with his wife Jane Thornton , looks at a modern form of slavery – the of people from Eastern Europe to work in the UK sex trade . Recent Mountview graduate Kasia Halpin plays Anja , a Moldavian ...

Published: Thursday 08 November 2007
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 474 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Memories of a writer fired by his duty to society

... after Untouchable in 1936 . It was a moving portrait of the struggles of a boy , who dies of tuberculosis while chained in slavery as a labourer . Like Untouchable , it was fired by the conviction that a writer had a duty to the society in which he lived ...

Published: Thursday 09 December 2004
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 561 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

Passion for greatest love story

... gorgeous to behold , the flailing arms and arching spines of Lamentation bear little distinction from those of the tribute to slavery , Bound , and each dance trembles permanently on the verge of a climax that never happens . Night Songs is ravishing and ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 2001
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 574 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Snaps

... Canada will take part in the Trafalgar Square Festival , from August . Highlights include musical theatre tale of African slavery , Mass Carib , and leading Royal Ballet Cathy specially created dance piece Spell . www . london . gov . uk / trafalgarsquare ...

Published: Thursday 03 August 2006
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 500 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

The types and the gripes of an actor’s money

... do not submit your accounts every three months , Customs and Excise men will clap you in irons and sell your children into slavery . Also , you think you are richer than you are . When that cheque for £ 470 comes through the letterbox , remember £ 70 is ...

Published: Thursday 02 December 2004
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 579 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

22 OBITUARIES Dinsdale Landen

... Landen will be remembered for his Cockney title role in the Mickey Dunne series ( 1967 ) , as well as The Fight Against Slavery ( 1975 ) , Fathers and Families and Devenish in 1977 , Pig in the Middle ( 1980 ) and What the Butler Saw ( 1987 ) . He also ...

Published: Thursday 15 January 2004
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 635 | Page: 22 | Tags: none