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Peggy Bennette Hume is a British playwright and children's author.
Life
Peggy Bennette Hume was born in London to Trinidadian parents.[1]
Bennette Hume's play The Girl Who Wished was peformed at the Tricycle Theatre in 1985.[2][3] In 1986 she was appointed the first writer in residence at the Battersea Arts Centre, making her the only black woman writer in residence in London.[4]
Works
Play productions
- No Hard Feelings. Roots Theatre Company, 1985.
- The Girl Who Wished. Tricycle Theatre, 1985.
- This Way Up. Bemarrow Sisters Theatre Company, 1986.
Publications
- The Girl Who Wished. New Millenium, 1997.
- Plaiting: for all little girls who have ever suffered with 'bed hairs' and 'sombrero hairs' . United Kingdom : The Choir Press, 2014. Parallel English text and Swedish translation. With illustrations by Gemma Adams, music composed by John Hare.
References
- ^ Helen Thomas; Lynnette Goddard; Deirdre Osborne (2014). "The Social and Political Context of Black British Theatre: 1950sā80s". In Mary Brewer (ed.). Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama. Macmillan Education UK. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-137-50629-0.
- ^ Nicola Abram (2020). Black British Women's Theatre: Intersectionality, Archives, Aesthetics. Springer International Publishing. p. 74. ISBN 978-3-030-51459-4.
- ^ The Girl Who Wished, Black Plays Archive. Accessed 12 December 2020.
- ^ Spare Rib, 1987. Online here. Accessed 12 December 2020.