Ain’t I A Woman?

23 – 25 Jan 2025

Devised and produced by Landé Belo
Part of the Collective Fringe Festival
Collective Acting Studio

Ain’t I A Woman by Landé Belo
Ain’t I A Woman by Landé Belo

No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”.  
Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”…
No woman has ever written enough. – bell hooks 

The burden of representation weighs heavily on Fin as she faces an invidious choice: self over cause?

Nicki considers pandering to a lazy trope to open doors for her…will it?….. Ngozi explores “whitewashing” though it involves grievous bodily harm.

Mary optimistically ventures into digital dating….the perfect antidote for her self-loathing and depression and Tiwa wants to expose the insidious impact of the economic crisis on her world…

From a London casting room to a dystopian future, a sci-fi mystery to a TV studio, women tell their different stories, sharing their perspectives of being black and female in contemporary Britain….

 “….a reminder that it is we, the village, that is responsible for our own children’s stories; our history; and our own theatre.” (Mike Scott-Harding – Afridiziak | Ain’t I A Woman, 2024)