In the dialogue, In-Sook Chappell uses a host familiar and unfamiliar words and phrases to pepper the language and dialect of the characters, with some brilliant comic and dramatic effect. We’ve put together a short glossary for Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok to help along your understanding. 

For the Black Theatre Live, Yellow Earth and Royal Exchange Theatre national tour of Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok we interviewed the shows Director, Jennifer Tang.

Black Theatre Live with our venue partner, Lightouse in Poole is excited to be piloting a new Associate Artist model with Phoebe McIntosh.

Joseph Barnes-Philips of Big Foot blog on his experience of touring with Black Theatre Live this autumn. First appeared in the  for the Huffington Post, 10 November 2017

Big Foot uses a host of dynamite words and phrases to pepper the language and dialect of the characters, some with brilliant comic and dramatic effect. We’ve put together this sik short glossary with HighRise Theatre for Big Foot to whet your appetite for the show on tour

We had a chat with writer and performer Joseph Barnes-Phillips about the ideas behind his new touring show Big Foot.

Read Michael O’Brien-Britton’s charming interview with Joseph Barnes-Philips about writing Big Foot. The Black Theatre Live, HighRise Theatre and Stratford Circus Arts Centre’s autumn tour in 2017.

Actor Raphael Sowole tells us about playing the title role in Shakespeare's greatest Tragedy.

Offue Okegbe who plays Horatio in Black Theatre Live's upcoming adaptation of Hamlet tells us about growing up in Stratford.

Blog commissioned by What's on Stage. National tour Black Theatre Live in association with Watford Palace Theatre & Stratford Circus Arts Centre. Mark Norfolk the writer of Britain's first production of Hamlet with an all-black cast and creative team talks about 'serving Shakespeare's text as much as possible', and working with director Jeffery Kissoon

This project started life as part of the Outreach Programme for the Black Theatre Live tour of She Called Me Mother by Michelle Innis and starring Cathy Tyson. Lucinda Meredith (Artistic Associate for Engagement), Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds approached the Women's Refuge asking: “What can we do for you?”

*This was a guest post from Jonathan Kennedy, Executive Director of Tara Arts for Spektrix's blog*

When Jonathan first asked me if Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds wanted to be part of Black Theatre Live, I had no hesitation in saying yes and was really clear as to why we should be part of such an innovative touring project. 

Lizzie Watts (Outreach Worker, Key Theatre) reports on her experience of  Black  Theatre Live participation for the tour of Macbeth in Peterborough..