... Drummond works miracles with the orchestra and chorus . However , the undermines the balanced of Kullervo ' s journey from slavery to family rejection and back as avenger . Settings by Kimmo Takala and lighting by Pamela Hunter evoke a harsh world of s ...

... the great man , considered in his day to be the cleverest in England , and his sometimes ambiguous love for his , born into slavery but given a freedom , of sorts , in home . Jeffery Kissoon is an equally towering in this , , playing Barber from the age ...

... Hollyoaks creator Phil Redmond sites one key difference between the contracts – the ‘ clause : “ When actors want to leave , it . Slavery was abolished years and years ago . ” Under the star system , performers could be sued for breach of contract if they tried ...

... Austin Richmond West Pearl Cleage sets her play In a remote Kansas township 33 years after the end of the American War . But slavery Is still In bitter , living memory . Nlcodemus , like dozens of other frontier towns , more a handful of houses In acres of ...

... The problem with theatre is that it can too easily become diffused into . Motherland purports to tell us something about slavery , yet becomes unintelligible , until by the interval I was asking myself what is this evening all about , and failing to give ...

... history has honoured the man Wilberforce , rather than the emancipated Nigerian Olaudah Equiano , for campaigning to abolish slavery . But Christopher version of 18 th century autobiography helps to redress the balance . While one of the dangers of historical ...

... costumes and vibrant music filling the stage . Every possible rhythm from the African drums of the days of sugar plantation slavery right through to the rumba , mamba , and , of course , the salsa of today . The narrative is built around first the history ...

... highly paid directors and he had even greater success with Roots , the saga of a black American family from its roots in slavery to the Civil War . The drama was one of most prestigious TV productions and became a great international success . When the ...

... in Europe , but the US experience was distinct , as it was by the linked upheavals of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery . In an era which saw the black struggle for freedom matched with the female suffragette movement , the black woman was therefore ...

... ' . Receiving its British premiere at the Tricycle , the eighth play in the cycle takes place in the , yet the legacy of slavery is never far the surface . Tho setting is tho backyard of two tenements in Pittsburgh ' s decaying Hill District , a community ...

... their steps to no great effect . As Spartacus and his Phrygia , played by Anna Antonicheva , are captured and taken into slavery , the dramatic tension between the Romans and the Thracians is matched by the sensual between Spartacus and Phrygia . She ...

... here Danson goes for a more realistic , highly episodic approach to the brutal life and times of Deep South at the height of slavery ¦ . There is even a lengthy , politically correct programme note about the word nigger in the culture of the age and in Danson ...