Winsome Pinnock

Standard Name: Pinnock, Winsome
WP is a contemporary Black British playwright, who writes for television and radio as well as the stage, and a teacher of creative writing. Her first play was produced in 1987.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Sarah Daniels
SD 's Taking Breath was included (along with plays by Winsome Pinnock , Dario Fo , and Alan Ayckbourn ) in New Connections 99: New Plays for Young People.
Drake, Nick et al. “Introduction, editorial materials”. New Connections 99. New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber, 1999, pp. vii - xiii, 602.
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Timeline

About October 1973: The Women's Theatre Group (still in being...

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About October 1973

The Women's Theatre Group (still in being as the Sphinx Theatre Company ) was founded in London as a feminist and socialist theatre group; its twin organization the Women's Theatre Company proved short-lived.
de Angelis, April. “Riddle of the Sphinx”. Guardian Unlimited, 10 Sept. 2005.
Hanna, Gillian, editor. Monstrous Regiment. Four Plays and a Collective Celebration. Nick Hern Books, 1991.
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“The Amiable Courtship of Miz Venus and Wild Bill - 197”. Sphinx Theatre Company Archive: Productions. 1970s.

Texts

Pinnock, Winsome. “A Hero’s Welcome”. Six Plays by Black and Asian Women, edited by Khadija George, Aurora Metro Press, 1993.
Pinnock, Winsome. “A Rock in Water”. Black Plays: Two, edited by Yvonne Brewster, Methuen, 1989.
Pinnock, Winsome. “Can You Keep a Secret?”. New Connections 99: New Plays for Young People, edited by Nick Drake et al., Faber and Faber, 1999.
Pinnock, Winsome. “Education should be a right for all”. theguardian.com.
Pinnock, Winsome. “IDP”. How Long Is Never? Darfur - A Response, Josef Weinberger Plays, 2007.
Pinnock, Winsome. “Leave Taking”. First Run: New Plays by New Writers, edited by Kate Harwood, Nick Hern Books, 1989, pp. 139-89.
Pinnock, Winsome. Mules. Faber and Faber, 1996.
Pinnock, Winsome. One Under. Faber and Faber, 2005.
Pinnock, Winsome. “Taken”. Charged: Six Plays, Nick Hern, 2010, pp. 57-80.
Pinnock, Winsome. “Talking in Tongues”. Black Plays: Three, edited by Yvonne Brewster, Methuen Drama, pp. 171-27.
Pinnock, Winsome. “The Alfred Fagon awards: the best of black British playwriting?”. theguardian.com.