Home by Merle Collins read by Winsome Pinnock | Bush Theatre celebrates 70th anniversary of Windrush
Winsome Pinnock's 1987 classic play Leave Taking is inspired by the spirit of her parents' generation who arrived at the time of HMS Windrush. It plays at the Bush Theatre 24 May - 30 Jun 2018: https://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/event/l...
She reads Merle Collins' poem 'Home' to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the arrival of Windrush to Great Britain.
Winsome Pinnock is “the godmother of Black British playwrights” (The Guardian) who defined and inspired a generation with her work for the stage. She won the George Devine Award for Leave Taking in 1991 and was the first black British woman to have a play produced at the National Theatre. She has written numerous, award-winning plays that put black experiences centre-stage. In 2017, Winsome’s short play The Principles of Cartography opened the newly refurbished Bush Theatre as part of Black Lives, Black Words.
Merle Collins was born in 1950 in Aruba to Grenadian parents and was taken to Grenada shortly after she was born. Her first collection of poetry Because the Dawn Breaks was published by Karia Press in 1985. She is currently Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of Maryland.
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