Theatre History & Styles

This book examines the history, ethics and intentions of staging people's personal stories and offers a 'spiral model' to support safe and ethical practice. Clark Baim, 2020

A 10 minute news feature in commemoration of Augusto Boal. Democracy Now, 2009

This extensive digital resource explores Black British performance histories, including the legacy of the African Slave Trade through narratives and aesthetics of resistance represented on the British stage in theatre and dance performances. Future Histories, 2021

A classic publication highlighting the vast wealth of arts being created in BAME communities that was going under the radar of the mainstream arts sector. Naseem Khan, 1976

The Black Plays Archive is an online catalogue for the first professional production of every African, Caribbean and Black British play produced in Britain. National Theatre

With profiles on Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic (BAME) theatre companies, tours, resources, research a blog and archive, this is an excellent resource. Hosted by Tara Arts

This book talks about relationship, democracy and collective action that theatre can engender and how theatre can script power within and outside us. Jana Sanskriti was founded over 20 years ago as a small theatre group in West Bengal. Now it's work has spread all over India and this book records some of this work. Sanjoy Ganguly, 2010

This fully illustrated book by the Bengali company's founder and artistic director collects and explains their programme of workshop exercises, placing them in the context of their social and activist work; and includes interviews with Ganguly unpicking key aspects of the work. Sanjoy Ganguly, edited by Ralph Yarrow, 2020    

Chapter Five of Collective Encounters' Digital Participatory Theatre Series, curated and introduced by Maya Chowdhry: How do different digital distribution methods engage audiences? With a case study of New Worlds by Forest Tribe. (21:23) Location: England