Yvonne Brewster
Yvonne Brewster OBE | |
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Born | Yvonne Clarke 7 October 1938 |
Education | Rose Bruford College, Royal Academy of Music |
Occupations |
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Known for | Co-founder of Talawa Theatre Company |
Yvonne Jones Brewster in the UK and The Barn in Jamaica.
Biography
Born in
Upon her return to England in the early 1970s,
Brewster is a patron of the Clive Barker Centre for Theatrical Innovation.[11]
Personal life
She married after returning to England from Jamaica in 1971, and she and her husband now live in Florence.[2][6]
Awards and recognition
In the
She featured on the 2003 list of
Publications
In 2004, Brewster published her memoirs, entitled The Undertaker’s Daughter: The Colourful Life of a Theatre Director (Arcadia Books).[15] She has also edited five collections of plays, including Barry Reckord's For the Reckord (Oberon Books, 2010)[16] and Mixed Company: Three Early Jamaican Plays, published by Oberon Books in 2012.[17] In 2018 she published Vaulting Ambition: Jamaica's Barn Theatre 1966–2005.[18]
Selected bibliography
- The Undertaker’s Daughter: The Colourful Life of a Theatre Director (BlackAmber/Arcadia Books, 2004, ISBN 978-1901969245)
- Vaulting Ambition: Jamaica’s Barn Theatre 1965–2005 (ISBN 9781845233600)
Further reading
- Rodreguez King-Dorset, Black British Theatre Pioneers: Yvonne Brewster and the First Generation of Actors, Playwrights and Other Practitioners, McFarland & Co, 2014, ISBN 978-0786494859.
References
- ^ Profile of Yvonne Brewster Archived 10 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine at 100 Great Black Britons.
- ^ Caribbean Beat Magazine. No. 65. MEP Publishers. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
- ^ Reade, Simon (23 August 1992), "Pioneer with a vision of black theatre", New Straits Times.
- ^ a b c "Biography – Yvonne Brewster", Historical Geographies, 14 September 2011.
- ^ Notes on contributors, in Geoffrey V. Davis, Anne Fuchs (eds), Staging New Britain: Aspects of Black and South Asian British Theatre Practice, Brussels: P.I.E.-Peter Lang, 2006, p. 337.
- ^ a b c d Thompson, Tosin (2 March 2021). "Yvonne Brewster: 'I wasn't going to faff around the edges of the fringe'". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ "Black & Asian Performance in Britain 1970 onwards – Talawa Theatre Company". V&A.
- ^ Iqbal, Nosheen (29 May 2011). "Talawa theatre company: the fights of our lives". The Guardian.
- ^ Brewster, Yvonne, "Directing The Black Jacobins" Archived 26 September 2021 at the Wayback Machine, Discovering Literature: 20th century, British Library, 7 September 2017). Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- ^ "Antony & Cleopatra: A Theatre First", Talawa, 1991.
- ^ "Patron of the Clive Barker Centre – Yvonne Brewster OBE", Clive Barker Centre for Theatrical Innovation.
- ^ UK list: "No. 53153". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 31 December 1992. p. 10.
- ^ Burrell, Ian (2 October 2003). "Into the limelight at last: search begins for the hundred greatest black Britons of all time". The Independent.
- ^ "100 Women: Who took part?" BBC News, 22 November 2013.
- S2CID 161460788.
- ^ "Yvonne Brewster - Reckord Celebrations"[permanent dead link], News - Talawa Theatre Company, 7 September 2012.
- ^ "RBC Fellow Yvonne Brewster OBE edits new Jamaican play anthology" Archived 28 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine, Rose Bruford College, 9 August 2012.
- ^ "Vaulting ambition", JamaicaTradingNetwork, 31 March 2018.
External links
- Yvonne Brewster at IMDb