Photo credit: Johan Persson Tom Bateman, Jessie Buckley, Jack Colgrave Hirst, Hadley Fraser, Michael Pennington, Zoe Rainey, Miranda Raison, John Shrapnel, Kathryn Wilder and Jimmy Yuill join the cast of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company productions of The Winter’s Tale and Harlequinade at Garrick Theatre. The two productions will play in repertory from 17 October… Continue reading Branagh Theatre Company launches The Winter’s Tale and Harlequinade

Starting a revolution: Ashley Zhangazha (Ali). Photo credit: Iona Firouzabadi Play: Image of an Unknown Young Woman Theatre: Gate Theatre, Notting Hill Playwright: Elinor Cook Director: Christopher Haydon Review by Esha Chaman Elinor Cook’s contemporary political thriller is bursting with punky ferocity in a timely and unrelenting critique of police brutality against a dissident society… Continue reading Image of an Unknown Young Woman

Talawa Firsts aims to kick start the careers of some very exciting new and emerging writers, directors and theatre-makers through a series of productions and workshops taking place Monday 8 – Friday 26 June 2015. Throughout June, Talawa’s studio will become a hub of activity as upcoming directors lead development workshops on new plays and theatre-makers… Continue reading Talawa Firsts

Africa Writes, The Royal African Society’s annual literature and book festival in association with The British Library, returns this year taking place Friday 3 July to Sunday 5 July 2015. Africa Writes is an annual festival organised by the Royal African Society, which aims to promote contemporary African writing and writers as well as to… Continue reading Africa Writes

Spread the Word, London’s writer development agency, has a brilliantly wide-ranging programme of 65 writers and 27 events on offer for the second London Short Story Festival , from 18 to 21 June 2015. Following its success last year, the festival returns to Europe’s biggest bookstore Waterstones Piccadilly for four days of talks, readings, Q&As,… Continue reading London Short Story Festival

Too much, too young: Jemima Bennett (Scout). Photo credit: Johan Persson Play: To Kill a Mockingbird Theatre: The Lowry, Salford Playwright: Adapted for the stage by Christopher Sergel Director: Timothy Sheader Review by Carl Palmer The enchantment of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird is present from the start of Christopher… Continue reading To Kill a Mockingbird

Act for Change Project founder Danny Lee Wynter. Diversity in the theatre, or the lack of it, was at the heart of an intense debate at the National Theatre on Tuesday 2 June 2015, to mark the first anniversary of the much-needed Act for Change Project, reports Joy Francis.

Photo credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths R. A. Villanueva is a Brooklyn-based poet, educator and editor whose book Reliquaria has been highly praised. A senior language lecturer in the Expository Writing Program at New York University, and a founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art, he has won many awards for his work,… Continue reading Interview with R. A. Villanueva

Words of Colour Productions is looking for writers to review plays, books and films for its website. As our profile increases, so are the requests to review the latest theatre performances, book releases and movies.

My mother Guemesh Isaak wrote two novels, translated traditional folk stories and rewrote the lyrics for Ruhus Gama (may your wedding be blessed), a song performed by the legendary Eritrean singer Haile Gebru. It is now the most famous Eritrean wedding song, still played today all over the world.