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There will be an opportunity to buy the book at a specially discounted rate on the night or after.
The book, Being Black and British: Before, During and After Drama School, is about being Black, being British and being an actor before, during and after training.
This launch event will bring together the editor of the book, Dermot Daly, with contributors (and director of THE HARDER THEY COME) Matthew Xia, Hannah Akhalu and Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (chaired by Dr Samia La Virgne) to discuss some of the themes in the book as well as answering questions from the audience around Black British(ness), actor training, and performance.
Written by Black writers working in and around the British performative industries, Being Black and British: Before, During and After Drama School offers practical and theoretical tools to take into the classroom, studio, rehearsal room, mind, body and heart, focalised unapologetically through being Black in Britain.
Structured across three acts, it covers themes present on the road to drama school such as youth theatre, the texts studied and early experiences in theatre spaces; drama school training with practical suggestions to encourage and embolden Black actors and the world of the profession, ensuring that mental health, making work and a sense of what can be offered by Black actors is made clear.
This book is a call to action and a challenge to all those who teach, lecture, direct, parent, produce, cast and/or train, Black performers in Britain – and those performers themselves, to listen more, ask more, feel more and be more.
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