TWO productions celebrating Black History Month are being staged at local theatres.
The Theatre in Chipping Norton and Evesham Arts Centre are both housing productions by mac Productions, the Birmingham-based Midlands Arts Centre touring company, next week.
On Friday, October 8, in Evesham, Blood Knot is being staged, before the audience gets the chance to take part in a question and answer session with director Paul Jonathan Savage.
The play by Athol Fugard was first produced in 1961.
It is a parable about two brothers, one light skinned and the other black, committed to a shifting, abrasive relationship which reflects on all the larger fears and anguish of wider racial issues.
It is described as poignant and compelling and starts at 8pm at The Studio Theatre at the arts centre. Call 01386 45567 for ticket details.
On Thursday, in Chipping Norton, You Strike the Woman and You Strike the Rock is about the time when in 1956, 20,000 South African women marched to the capital city in protest at the pass laws, one of the lynchpins of apartheid.
It follows the story and songs of three of the women in a rare play written about and by black women.
Audience members are invited to stay behind afterwards for a chat. Call the box office for tickets on 01608 642350 (www.chippingnortontheatre.co.uk).
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