The co-founder of Talawa, Britain's longest-running black theatre company, is a woman of many firsts, celebrated in a new book "Fantastic! Because all of us lickkle, and all of us tallawah, and all of us are women," said Jamaican actor Mona Hammond when Yvonne Brewster suggested a name for her theatre company. Hammond, who had helped found the company, wanted a Jamaican name. Brewster consulted a dictionary on the En…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM on March 2, 2021