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Yvonne Brewster: 'I wasn't going to faff around the edges of the fringe' by Tosin Thompson

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

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