That Black Theatre Podcast
That Black Theatre Podcast is a podcast about Black theatre, Black creativity and blackness in Britain, hosted by PhD student Nadine Deller and her sister Nadia Deller. Hear stories about and from the leaders of Black British theatre, from 1900 to today.A podcast from the National Theatre’s Black Plays Archive, in partnership with Central School of Speech and Drama and the London Arts and Humanities Partnership. Listen weekly on Mondays from 28 September 2020.
Podcasting since 2020 • 14 episodes
That Black Theatre Podcast
Latest Episodes
That Black Theatre Podcast: An interview with Ola Ince
In the final episode of Series 1, we have a very special guest, the exceptional theatre director Ola Ince. We talk about her past and upcoming work, the future of Black theatre and what she wants to see change in the British theatre industry.
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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59:14
That Black Theatre Podcast: 2010s, Nine Night, Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner and Jasmine Lee-Jones
This week we look at the last decade of Black British theatre and ask: have things really changed for Black theatre practitioners? We focus on two different plays: Natasha Gordon’s Nine Night, which is the first play on record by a...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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54:42
That Black Theatre Podcast: Mojisola Adebayo, Afri-queer theatre, climate change and colonisation.
This week we have a really special guest, Mojisola Adebayo. We discuss ‘Afri-Queer Theatre’, Black queer stories in theatre, climate change and colonisation. Mojisola discusses their play Moj of the Antarctic, which was performed at th...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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58:03
That Black Theatre Podcast: 2000s, the 'state of the nation' & Roy Williams
This week we're continuing our discussion of the 2000s. We talk about how theatre can address the 'state of the nation', through the work of the brilliant playwright, Roy Williams. We were lucky enough to have an interview with Roy, who b...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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51:42
That Black Theatre Podcast: 2000s, the ‘renaissance’ in Black theatre, debbie tucker green and Lynette Goddard
This week we discuss the question of whether there was a ‘renaissance’ in Black theatre during the 2000s and the work of debbie tucker green, with the prominent academic, Professor Lynette Goddard. We talk about the unprecedented mainstream pre...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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57:44