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Photo: Gavin Evans

An exceptional archive, charting over 20 years of Talawa Theatre Company, Britain’s foremost Black theatre organisation, is being made available to the public for the first time. ‘Trading Faces – Recollecting Slavery’ holds 148 scripts, over 700 photographs relating to 32 productions and 29 visual recordings of live productions. The project has been developed by Talawa, Future Histories and the V&A Theatre Collections. It also includes two oral history projects, Blackgrounds and Blackstage, in which theatre practitioners of African and Asian descent give their account of life and work within British theatre. The archive will be available at the V&A, Blythe House, London and online at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a