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Professor Lynette Goddard on Black British Playwrights for Drama Online

Professor Lynette Goddard on Black British Playwrights for Drama Online

  • Date05 October 2021

Professor Lynette Goddard has recently written about Black British Playwrights for Drama Online Black History Month.

As part of Bloomsbury Publishing’s Black History Month celebrations, department Professor of Black Theatre and Performance, Lynette Goddard, has recently written Drama Online’s Featured Content page about Black British Playwrights.

The feature article looks at seven black British plays that explore the themes of identity politics and the aesthetics of form in Black British playwriting from the 1980s to the present day.

You can read the article and access the plays here: https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/featured-content

Please note: most of the featured plays are free to access until mid-December 2021. Chewing Gum Dreams and Black Men Walking can only be viewed by Drama Online subscribers.

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