Author: Nkenna Akunna
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Skin Deep Meets: Alfie Enoch
Skin Deep Meets: Alfie Enoch
Towards the end of his run in Tree at the Young Vic, Skin Deep caught up with Alfie Enoch to talk about the importance of Black British storytelling.
Art
BBZ BLK BK: Alternative Graduate Show 2019
BBZ BLK BK: Alternative Graduate Show 2019
BBZ’s Alternative Graduate show opened at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham last Wednesday, featuring ten early career artists practising in a range of mediums.
Art,
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Skin Deep Meets: Small Island
Skin Deep Meets: Small Island
Skin Deep Meets the cast of Small Island to talk about the importance of representing the Windrush generation on stage, and why they think art and creativity remains significant in moments of immense political and social threat.
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Sheila Atim Takes Her Play, Anguis, To Edinburgh
Sheila Atim Takes Her Play, Anguis, To Edinburgh
Nkenna Akunna caught up with the rising star to talk about her new role as a playwright.
Art,
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Bronx Gothic: An exploration of freedom, trauma, and the limits of black girlhood
Bronx Gothic: An exploration of freedom, trauma, and the limits of black girlhood
Bronx Gothic is turbulent, vulnerable, and its structural lines do not slot tidily in the mental spaces we are used to making as audience members.
Activism,
Art
Jay Bernard’s Surge, the process of documenting overlooked Black British history, and the struggles we are yet to overcome
Jay Bernard’s Surge, the process of documenting overlooked Black British history, and the struggles we are yet to overcome
Paying homage to the victims of the New Cross fire in 1981.
Art,
People,
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Skin Deep meets Yrsa Daley-Ward
Skin Deep meets Yrsa Daley-Ward
The Terrible is a different thing for everybody. It is a shape-shifting thing, it can be whatever the thing is in you that trips you up again and again and again.
Art,
People,
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On Loneliness and Finding Ourselves in Each Other, with Fatimah Asghar
On Loneliness and Finding Ourselves in Each Other, with Fatimah Asghar
Diasporic loneliness is distinct. It's an ever-present vibration under the skin, in some moments unremarkable and in others turbulent.
Art,
People
Hoard, Bim Adewunmi’s love letter to the Black British experience
Hoard, Bim Adewunmi’s love letter to the Black British experience
Bim Adewunmi's debut play, exploring the contours of a multi-generational British Nigerian family.
People,
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Noughts and Crosses – why Malorie Blackman’s tale is still so relevant today.
Noughts and Crosses – why Malorie Blackman’s tale is still so relevant today.
Nkenna Akunna chats to actor Heather Agyepong about playing Sephy in Sabrina Mahfouz's adaptation of Noughts & Crosses.
Art,
People,
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How can we go forward if we don’t make peace with our past?
How can we go forward if we don’t make peace with our past?
Skin Deep's Nkenna Akunna meets Shingai to have an honest conversation about growing up, ancient civilizations and dealing with grief.
Art
What happens when the people at the bottom of the empire tell the story?
What happens when the people at the bottom of the empire tell the story?
On basking in the glory of history being made on stage in Lynette Linton and Adjoa Andoh's Richard II revival.