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‘Natasha Gordon in Conversation with Lucy Jeffery: “it was around 7.27pm that suddenly diversity walked through the door”’
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7196-5457
2020 (English)In: ArtsPraxis, ISSN 1552-5236, Vol. 7b, p. 26-52Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Award-winning playwright Natasha Gordon talks to Lucy Jeffery about her experience as a Caribbean-British actor and playwright whose debut play Nine Night (2018) made her the first black British female playwright to have a play staged in London’s West End. The discussion ranges from Gordon’s own experiences of gendered and racial injustices as a young actor to how these prejudices are evident in the audience demographic of theatres today. It focuses on Nine Night’s exploration of how second-generation, specifically Jamaican-British, immigrants experience tensions concerning identity, belonging, and displacement in the wake of the 2018 Windrush Scandal. As the conversation evaluates the importance of Gordon’s work and visibility on the National Theatre and West End stages, it contributes to the recent underrepresentation of black voices, a concern expressed in the widespread Black Lives Matter and Say Her Name protests that have taken place in America and the UK in 2020. The conversation, which took place at the University of Reading as part of the ‘Race and Performance Today’ series (organised by Jeffery and Matthew McFrederick), also responds to Michael Peters’s (2015) call to challenge the whiteness of curricula in British and American universities.

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2020. Vol. 7b, p. 26-52
Keywords [en]
Black Lives Matter, Natasha Gordon, National Theatre, Nine Night
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Performing Arts
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-40639OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-40639DiVA, id: diva2:1505436
Available from: 2020-12-01 Created: 2020-12-01 Last updated: 2020-12-03Bibliographically approved

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