Colony

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Synopsis:

Set in a West Indian Island, the play focuses on a strike by native sugar workers against the white plantation owner. The description of the conditions of work on the island takes a radical political stance in the representation of black and white people united in their fight against the owner. The play resonates with the political turbulence that swept across the Caribbean islands in the late 1930s and featured the black British actor Robert Adams as the trade union leader O’Riley. In 1944, Adams formed the Negro Repertory Theatre, one of the first professional black British theatre company.

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Author: Geoffrey Trease

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Director: Hernert Marshall

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