Professor Colin Chambers explores the history of black and Asian theatre (1/2)

12th August 2011

 

INTERVIEW: COLIN CHAMBERS (1/2)

The professor of drama at Kingston University, and former journalist and literary manager of the RSC, talks to Suman Bhuchar about the long and previously obscure history of African, Asian and Caribbean diasporic practitioners as recounted in his new book, Black and Asian Theatre in Britain (Routledge). Recorded: 11 August 2011.

When I was a theatre critic in the 1970s I saw a lot of black and Asian theatre, which was among the most interesting things that I’d seen.