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Winsome Pinnock

November 2023

  • Anna Scher with her students in 1975.

    ‘We’re so lucky to have met her’: Anna Scher’s former students on their lessons in drama and life

    Anna Scher, who has died aged 78, gave acting classes to countless young people at her north London theatre school. Gary Kemp, Jake Wood, Winsome Pinnock, Trevor Laird and Ricardo P Lloyd recall a remarkable teacher

October 2023

  • Nirvana, whose work was ‘influential both socially and musically’, according to a spokesperson from Oak National Academy, who are creating curriculum resources for England’s secondary schools

    Grunge and rap to feature in new lesson aids for music teachers in England

    Curriculum resources also to include more diverse English literature texts and history topics such as ‘imperial decline’

March 2022

  • Margo Jefferson , Winsome Pinnock, Tsitsi Dangarembga

    Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga among this year’s Windham-Campbell prize winners

    Dangarembga, American writer Margo Jefferson and British playwright Winsome Pinnock are among eight recipients of the $165,000 grants, as the award marks its 10th anniversary

September 2021

  • Bernardine Evaristo

    English exam board doubles choice of books by writers of colour

    Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other amongst new books on OCR’s English literature curriculum
  • Samantha Barks in Frozen.

    The week in theatre: Frozen; Rockets and Blue Lights – review

    Will the West End ever let go of this glinting new adaptation of the beloved Disney film?
  • Rockets and Blue Lights

    Rockets and Blue Lights review – radical retelling of Britain’s slavery history

    A tidal wave of plotlines, ideas and characters embraces past and present in a production where playfulness meets cruelty

May 2021

  • British author Bernardine Evaristo poses with her book Girl, Woman, Other.

    Salman Rushdie and Bernardine Evaristo on shortlist for more diverse UK exam texts

    OCR board asks teachers to vote on books to make A-level and GCSE English courses more inclusive

July 2020

  • Come, Been and Gone at the Barbican

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    Caesar, Cilla and a superstar cast: Tristram Kenton's stage archive – in pictures

    Tristram Kenton’s photographs have accompanied reviews in the Guardian for more than 30 years. Ahead of a series of themed galleries, we open up his archive with 40 fabulous shots

June 2020

  • Winsome Pinnock and Jasmine Lee-Jones.

    Black British culture special
    Winsome Pinnock meets Jasmine Lee-Jones: 'Some UK theatres have never staged a black British play'

  • The past sitting side by side with the present ... Rochelle Rose and Karl Collins.

    Lockdown culture
    Rockets and Blue Lights review – swirling journey through black history

March 2020

  • Winsome Pinnock

    On my radar
    On my radar: Winsome Pinnock’s cultural highlights

    The British playwright on Ballet Black, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and an unmissable vegan eatery

December 2019

  • Clockwise from top left: Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock, Lucian Msamati rehearsing Master Harold and the Boys, Funeral Flowers by Emma Dennis-Edwards, and director Justin Audibert.

    Better, bolder, further to go: the decade in black British theatre

    The last 10 years have seen a boom for black British playwrights, actors, artistic directors and others in the industry. What has changed on and off stage – and what’s next?

May 2018

  • ‘You can’t get away from the fact that we have been oppressed’ … Winsome Pinnock.

    Winsome Pinnock: 'I used to think we needed change – now we need a revolution'

    As her 1986 drama Leave Taking is revived at the Bush, the playwright talks about the pain of being neglected, the barriers faced by writers of colour – and her new play about London
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