We create historical and contemporary pieces of theatre from the Black African Caribbean experience. We use Black African theatrical aesthetics, including: ritual, griots, drama, dance, music, poetry, song, spirituality and storytelling, to create theatre. Promoting cultural discussion, debate, understanding, education and fun, always with a social function.
Past productions:
Water’s Flight:
Waters Flight marked the transformation of the Pegasus Theatre, Oxford with a devised ritual using African cultural forms of storytelling, dance, song and call and response. September 2010.
View videos of Waters Flight here:
Finding Beulah:
Finding Beulah is an African love story that weaves time, history and generations and presents a united Africa, that calls the Diaspora home.
View a trailer for show here:
Read review for Finding Beulah here:
This
piece is a joint production between Unity Arts and Kuumba Nia Arts in
2010. Written
by Amantha Edmead, directed by John Sailsman.
The Backside Monologues
…..Three women, one soul song.......The Backside Monologues is a contemporary play exploring love, friendship, experiences and the many ups and few downs of a black female life journey. In this piece we see three black women who through poetry, prose, song and movement share their experiences of life, realising that they are not so different after all. They go beyond the limitations of stero-types and body parts and discover they all share the same soul song.
This
piece is a joint production between Unity Arts and Kuumba Nia Arts in 2011. Written
by Amantha Edmead, directed by John Sailsman.
Up Coming Productions:
On Her Own Ground:
A
one woman show telling the tales of the Two Mrs Amy Garvey’s and Madame
C J Walker. These three remarkable woman who fought against the odds
at the turn of the last century to make a difference for people of African heritage
in the modern world. Previewed at the International Womens Festival in Oxford 2012.
Written
by Amantha Edmead. Being reworked for performances in 2014 with venues and dates to be confirmed.
