What's On Sat 19 Sept
Bolton Lecture 2020 - Bonnie Greer
Date:
Sat 19 Sept
Venue:
Tipp Mid-West Radio and online
Time:
7pm-8pm
Age:
Adults
Ticket:
Free
Listen to the 2020 Bolton Lecture below
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Bonnie Greer was born on the Southside of Chicago, and like Michelle Obama, she is a “Southside Girl”. In 1980, she moved to New York City where she studied playwriting at the Negro Ensemble Company, the famous Black theatre founded by an original member of Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking play: "A Raisin In The Sun." She won her first playwriting award that year from The Phoenix Theatre in New York. She also worked in the playwriting department of the New York Shakespeare Festival under Joseph Papp. That Department discovered and helped produce Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart”. She also studied at The Actors Studio Playwriting Unit, under its director, Elia Kazan and also under Joseph Mankiewicz and Arthur Penn. She brought a play to the Edinburgh Festival, in which she performed, in 1986 and decided then to stay in Britain. She moved to London where she worked in Brixton with a women’s theatre group, ReSisters; and also with the Black Theatre group: Temba and Talawa Theatre. She co-won The Verity Bargate Award for her play about Ireland: “In The Country Of The Young”. She has had many plays produced over BBC Radio including “Marilyn And Ella” based on the research she has done on Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald. Her podcast. ”In Search Of Black History “ has been released by Audible UK and she is developing a project at the British Museum where she was once Deputy Chair of the Board of Trustees.
Due to current public health restrictions, Bonnie's lecture will be broadcast live on Tipp Mid West Radio. Please see https://www.tippmidwestradio.com/how-to-listen/ for further details on how to tune in.