Black Plays: v. 3 : Boy with Beer, Munda Negra, Scrape Off the Black, Talking in Tongues, A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death

Black Plays: v. 3 : Boy with Beer, Munda Negra, Scrape Off the Black, Talking in Tongues, A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death

Black Plays: v. 3 : Boy with Beer, Munda Negra, Scrape Off the Black, Talking in Tongues, A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death

Various Authors

Black Plays: v. 3 : Boy with Beer, Munda Negra, Scrape Off the Black, Talking in Tongues, A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death

Black Plays: v. 3 : Boy with Beer, Munda Negra, Scrape Off the Black, Talking in Tongues, A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death

Various Authors

Overview

This is a wide-ranging selection by theatre director Yvonne Brewster. Boy with Beer by Paul Boakye is a funny and sexy story of a Guardian-reading gay photographer who finds his fantasy "African Prince" ; A Jamaican Airman Foresees his Death by Fred D'Aguiar takes Yeats's famous poem and twists it into a rhapsody from a colonial perspective in WW2 Scotland . Munda Negra by Bonnie Greer examines the heart of darkness in Western civilisation ; Scrape off the Black by Tunde Ikoli is an East End mixed-race family drama ; Talking in Tongues by Winsome Pinnock explores issues around mixed race matches in modern-day Britain.

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Various Authors