The British Theatre Guide: Afro-Caribbean Playwright Needed


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Links Articles News Reviews Amateur Theatre Contact Other Resources Bookstore Forum Search the Site	Dateline: 6th July, 2003 Afro-Caribbean Playwright Needed A Joint Commission Between Pursued by a Bear and The National Maritime Museum For An Afro-Caribbean Playwright In 2007 the National Maritime Museum will be displaying the Michael Graham-Stewart collection that covers the West African, Transatlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades. Artefacts and literature of the most graphic and shocking nature originating from the holocaust of African nations have to be given a contemporary resonance both within the local community and its young people. The project, Moving On: By Learning From The Past - Sankofa, will involve two strategies: Firstly a writer from an Afro-Caribbean cultural background will be commissioned to write a play of 70 minutes or less in length, which will be toured in London to community venues and schools. Secondly the writer will work on a regular basis with young people from South East London to advise and inspire them to create their own dramatic material from the same body of research. An extra fee will be paid for this. The research for both the writer and young people will be with the leading black historian, S.I.Martin, author of the Channel Four Book Britain's Slave Trade. The project will start in earnest in October of 2003 and will complete in the autumn of 2004. The writer will be required for planning meetings before this. The commission's terms are in accordance with the ITC/Writers Guild. This is a joint commission between national touring theatre company, Pursued by a Bear, a member of the ITC and the internationally acclaimed, National Maritime Museum. The playwright should have had at least two professionally produced playsand a good level of experience working with young people. Expressions of interest in the project should come to: Stuart Mullins, Artistic Director of Pursued by a Bear. By mail to stuart@pbab.org or by post to Moving ON, 6 Glenluce Road London SE3 7SB by the 18th of July. Please send a CV (which includes the projects you have worked with young people on) and a 200 word statement of how you would approach the creation of a play that dramatises the contemporary resonance's of the slave trade in multi-cultural Britain. Index A-F Index G-K Index L-Q Index R-Z News Archive A-L News Archive M-Z Production News Archive Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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A Joint Commission Between Pursued by a Bear and The National Maritime Museum For An Afro-Caribbean Playwright