Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl by Lynette Goddard

Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl by Lynette Goddard

Errol John wrote Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (1958) after becoming disillusioned about the lack of good roles for black actors on the British theatre scene. While this situation has only slightly improved since, his response has become the most revived black play in Britain, from its original production at the Royal Court in 1958, to the National Theatre in 2012. It depicts the lives of a black community living in poverty in a shared tenement yard in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in the mid-1940s, showing how each of the characters carries dreams of escaping to create better lives for themselves and their families. Lynette Goddard focuses on how the play articulates the narratives of migration that prompted many Caribbean people to uproot from their homes on the islands and move to the England in the post-war era. For some of them, these dreams of a new life became a reality, but they were experienced differently across genders and generations.

Lynette Goddard is a Reader in Black Theatre and Performance in the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

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ISBN 13	9781138678873
ISBN 10	1138678872
Title	Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
Author	Lynette Goddard
Series	The Fourth Wall
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2017-10-09
Number of pages	98
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