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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Bernardine Evaristo
BE
has been an energetic and effective campaigner for better recognition of black people's contribution to literature and culture in Britain. She has sat on and chaired juries, served on the editorial board of the...
Performance of text
Jackie Kay
The
Theatre of Black Women
performed
JK
's first play,
Chiaroscuro
, at
Soho Poly
in
London
.
View reference
Kay, Jackie. “Chiaroscuro”.
Lesbian Plays
, edited by Jill Davis, Methuen, pp. 57-81.
58
“The Knitting Circle”.
London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association
.
Material Conditions of Writing
Jackie Kay
While writing this play,
JK
was reading
Ntozake Shange
's
For Colored Girls . . .
, and admired
the way she made poetry work as theatre
View reference
Kay, Jackie. “Afterword to Chiaroscuro”.
Lesbian Plays
, edited by Jill Davis, Methuen, pp. 82-3.
83
The play was commissioned by the
Theatre of Black Women
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