Five Plays about Enslavement by Black British Women Playwrights

The Theatre Times: “There’s a sidestep that Europe does where it takes itself out of the triangle… I’m never quite sure how that sleight of hand is achieved, but it’s like, slavery, it’s that American thing, we don’t have to worry about it,” said playwright Selina Thompson when talking about Britain’s role in the transatlantic trade of humans from Africa. She’s not wrong: The narrative of slavery in the UK has long been shaped by the celebration of white abolitionists, while the violent part is often obscured.