A landmark collection of plays for stage, screen and radio. While
other anthologies of plays by writers of African descent have been
published, Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers (1st edition
1993; new revised edition 2005) was the first drama anthology to
represent women alone. Comedy, poetry, history and magic combined
with themes of a social and spiritual nature are the themes and
styles evident in Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers, a
seminal collection of plays for stage, radio and television by
Rukhsana Ahmad, Maya Chowdhry, Trish Cooke, Winsome Pinnock, Meera
Syal and Zindika. Edited and introduced by Kadija George, Six Plays
by Black and Asian Women Writers includes: Essays on theatre and
writing workshop; The Importance of Oral Tradition to Black Theatre
by Valerie Small; A survey, A Recent Look at Black Women
Playwrights by Deirdre Osborne. This anthology's key
characteristics are effortless depictions of characters devoid of
stereotypical images and typecast roles and the playwrights'
approach to unconventional issues. Six Plays by Black and Asian
Women Writers represents just some of the writers who have achieved
national recognition with work produced on stage, television and
radio by some of the most distinguished actors, directors and
producers of African and Asian descent that the arts field in
Britain has seen. The anthology heralds the significance that young
women of African and Asian descent now have more role models to
look towards, reinforced by actors and writers-in-residence going
into educational institutions and more diverse organisations and
situations, from the BBC-supported writer-in-residence projects,
with the likes of performer/artists Rommi Smith and Erika Tan, to
performance poet/multi-media artist Dorothea Smartt as the Brixton
Market Poet-in-Residence. Since the first publication of Six Plays
by Black and Asian Women Writers: Meera Syal has become an
international name, with novel, TV and stage credits including the
popular musical, Bombay Dreams, debuting in the West End; After
receiving a writer-in-residence fellowship at Cambridge University,
Winsome Pinnock has gone on to produce further plays staged at
much-respected fringe theatres such as the Tricycle Theatre; Maya
Chowdhry continues to be experimental with her work in multimedia
formats, has co-edited a book with Nina Rapi, Acts of Passion:
Sexuality, Gender and Performance and is currently working on a
coedited anthology of women's writing in the north of England,
'Bitch Lit'; Zindika has written for dance theatre, for Adzido, and
co-edited a book, When Will I See You Again with Natalie Smith;
Rukshana Ahmad has published a novel, The Hope Chest, and received
a Royal Literary Fellowship; Trish Cooke has a successful career
writing books for children. Yet moving from the margins and into
the mainstream continues to happen too slowly. More than ten years
since the first publication of this anthology, the fight and
funding for a 'Black'-owned and -managed theatre in Britain is
still being argued for, and unfortunately, has barely moved.
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