Not Black and White: Category B, Seize the Day, Detaining Justice

Bola Agbaje, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Roy Williams

Not Black and White: Category B, Seize the Day, Detaining Justice

Bola Agbaje, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Roy Williams

Overview

Not Black and White comprises three new plays which examine the state of modern day Britain from the perspective of three leading black contemporary playwrights. Roy Williams, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Bola Agbaje tackle the prison system, the mayoralty and immigration in their respective plays.

Authors

Bola Agbaje

Bola Agbaje is a playwright who graduated from the young writers programme at the Royal Court in 2007. Her first play Gone Too Far! was selected to be performed as part of the Young Writer Festival and was performed at the Royal Court Theatre (Upstairs) in February 2007. In ...

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Kwame Kwei-Armah

Kwame Kwei-Armah became Artistic Director of the Young Vic Theatre in 2018. He was Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage (2011-18) and Artistic Director of the Festival of Black Arts and Culture, Senegal (2010), where he wrote and directed the opening ceremony at Sengho ...

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Roy Williams

Roy Williams began writing plays in 1990 and is now arguably one of the country's leading dramatists. In 2000 he was the joint-winner of The George Devine Award and in 2001 he was awarded the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. He was awarded the OBE for Ser ...

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