Content Library

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1. January 1829 Ira Aldridge arrives in Liverpool

   Ira Aldridge arrives in Liverpool

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2. March 1912 Belle Davis at the Hackney Empire

   African-American vaudeville star Belle Davis brings her celebrated troupe to the Hackney Empire for a two-week variety season.

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3. November 1936 Negro Theatre Arts Group at the Lyric Hammersmith

   The newly formed Negro Theatre Arts Group presents a programme of one-act plays at the Lyric Hammersmith, marking one of the first organised Black theatre companies in Britain.

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4. September 1959 Covent Garden to Brixton — A Musical at Theatre Royal Stratford East

   Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop stages a new musical written by Caribbean playwright Errol John, exploring the lives of West Indian migrants in postwar London.

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5. February 1973 The Black Jacobins at the Royal Court Theatre

   A landmark revival of C.L.R. James's epic play about the Haitian Revolution, directed by Norman Beaton, marks a pivotal moment for Black British theatre in the early 1970s.

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6. June 1989 Windrush Stories at the Tricycle Theatre

   A season of new work by Black British writers, curated by Nicolas Kent, presents five short plays responding to the fortieth anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush.

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7. July 2025 We moved to London

   The creators of the Aldridge Project moved to London

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