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Talawa

March 2024

  • Volunteers, staff and friends at Battersea Arts Centre

    Check tickets, play a dragon, feed the cat: the volunteers who go all out to keep theatres going

    Offering up their time and energy, unpaid staff have become a crucial support for an embattled industry. They explain what’s in it for them

June 2023

  • Paul Adeyefa (centre right) as Samuel Coleridge-Taylor in Recognition at Fairfield Halls.

    Recognition review – student’s ode to a neglected composer

    In Talawa theatre company’s new show, the story of a modern Black composer is entwined with that of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

July 2022

  • Mona Hammond in 2005.

    ‘We were always in awe of her’: actors celebrate the life and legacy of Mona Hammond

  • Mona Hammond during rehearsals for The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God at the Mermaid theatre in London, 1968.

    ‘Remarkable, revelatory, inspiring’: Yvonne Brewster pays tribute to actor Mona Hammond

September 2021

  • Run It Back at Fairfield Halls

    ‘Take back power’: Talawa’s Run It Back and the politics of black joy

    The resurgence of Black Lives Matter has given fresh potency to the theatre company’s production – an earthquake of sound and dance

March 2021

  • Michael Buffong

    Talawa theatre company: 'It's time to double down on Black Lives Matter pledges'

  • Yvonne Brewster directing in 1991.

    Yvonne Brewster: 'I wasn't going to faff around the edges of the fringe'

December 2020

  • Talawa theatre company rehearses for a production of Waiting for Godot.

    Black company pulls out of Birmingham theatre over Nightingale court

    Talawa says Birmingham Rep’s decision to host court cases ‘threatens integrity’ of its work

November 2020

  • ‘You could tell the kids were worried. They went quiet’ ... Tales from the Front Line ... and Other Stories.

    Lockdown culture
    ‘It’s a lot of work being black in Britain’ – Tales from the Front Line … and Other Stories – review

    The experience of black frontline workers in the Covid crisis is brought to harrowing life in these plays based on interviews with a teacher and mental health worker

July 2020

  • Sharon D Clarke in Sleeping Beauty, directed by Susie McKenna at the Hackney Empire in 2016.

    Theatres that made us
    'Hackney Empire gave me love – I got married on stage to my panto director'

    Sharon D Clarke, Robert Hastie, Michael Buffong and more share memories of the theatres that welcomed and inspired them

November 2019

  • Rum and Coca Cola production shots at West Yorkshire Playhouse Marcel McCalla (Slim) & Victor Romero Evans (Professor)

    Don Warrington on Mustapha Matura: he brought the West Indies to British theatre

    The actor and director pays tribute to the Trinidadian playwright who has died aged 79

September 2019

  • Head shot of actor and director Anthony Ekundayo Lennon against turquoise background

    Anthony Ekundayo Lennon on being accused of 'passing' as a black man: 'It felt like an assassination'

    All his life, people have assumed the theatre director is mixed race – and he was happy to embrace that identity. Then he was accused of faking it

February 2019

  • Talawa Theatre Company’s artistic director Michael Buffong in rehearsal for Guys & Dolls

    Head of Talawa theatre company criticises lack of diversity in arts

    Arts Council England report says progress is slow and Michael Buffong wants to know why

November 2018

  • Talawa’s artistic director Michael Buffong wants to set the record straight about hiring Anthony Ekundayo Lennon.

    Theatre boss defends controversial appointment on BME directors' scheme

  • Arts Council England described Anthony Ekundayo Lennon’s case as ‘very unusual’.

    Theatre job aimed at black directors given to man who said he was white

November 2017

  • Guys and Dolls

    Harlem shake-up: how Guys and Dolls found its swing

    A new version of the classic musical moves Damon Runyon’s characters to uptown New York, with an all-black cast and a burst of bebop and gospel

June 2017

  • Lyn Gardner

    Theatre blog
    Diversity is the real winner in Arts Council England's new round of funding

    Lyn Gardner
    ACE has given a boost to theatres and companies, from the Bush to Talawa, that put diversity at the heart of their artistic policies

June 2016

  • Maxine Peake (The Skriker) in The Skriker by Caryl Churchill @ Royal Exchange, Manchester. Part of Manchester International Festival. (Opening 3-07-15) ©Tristram Kenton 07/15 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Sarah Frankcom: turning the Royal Exchange into a northern powerhouse

    Via bold collaborations with Maxine Peake and a ruthless self-analysis, Sarah Frankcom has shrugged off the ‘regional theatre’ tag at Manchester’s Royal Exchange. The argumentative director explains why ‘it’s good to scare yourself’

April 2016

  • Don Warrington in Talawa’s King Lear

    King Lear review – as close to definitive as can be


    Don Warrington cuts a powerful and tyrannic Lear, amid a superb cast and suggestions of a forgotten history of black Britain

February 2016

  • Ben Thomas and Diane Parish rehearsing Talawa Theatre Company's King Lear photo: Graham Brandon press image supplied by Elin Morgan <elin@mobiusindustries.com> BBA EXHIBITION - Black and Asian Shakespeare BBA SHAKESPEARE

    How we staged Shakespeare
    Yvonne Brewster: Nobody was offering black actors Shakespeare so we staged our King Lear

    The director recalls her 1994 Talawa production of the tragedy, in which 39-year-old Ben Thomas was cast as a last-minute king after Norman Beaton fell ill
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