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'We're here!' The black playwrights storming the West End

by Bridget Minamore

Smash hits by black British playwrights were few and far between. Now Arinzé Kene and Natasha Gordon have work in the West End " and they're changing the audiences too In 1957, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl by Trinidad-born dramatist Errol John won a playwriting contest organised by the Observer " but its promised West End run was rejected by producers who deemed it unsuitable for audiences. They didn't think it would sel…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54am on October 3, 2018