Nurture or punishment is the fundamental dichotomy all teachers hold regarding caring best and educating their pupils. In Dismissed, the first full-length production by the antiracist theatre company The Upsetters, this debate is heightened as school teachers dispute what to do with a student after a knife is found in his bag. The story follows Ashley Fraser…
Black British history is history, although British history will have you questioning whether this is the case. The perpetual erasure and marginalisation of Black Brits and their stories is something that has become so embedded in culture that one can almost be forgiven for such a slip. “We shouldn’t have to exist” Lavinya Stennett, Founder,…