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Talawa Theatre Company is a Black British theatre company founded in 1986.〔("Black & Asian Performance in Britain 1970 onwards - Talawa Theatre Company" ). V&A.〕〔("Records of Talawa Theatre Company, 1962-2007" ), Victoria and Albert Museum: Theatre Collections.〕 The core of the company's work is producing award-winning plays from and about the African diaspora, championing reinterpretations of classic plays and supporting new writing and directing talent.〔〔Helen Kolawole, ("Look who's taking the stage" ), ''The Guardian'', 26 July 2003.〕〔("New Black theatre companies" ), Moving Here – Migration histories.〕〔(Talawa Theatre Company website. )〕 Since 2011 Talawa Theatre Company has been led by artistic director Michael Buffong, whose career spans theatre, TV and film.〔Natalie Woolman, ("Michael Buffong appointed Talawa artistic director" ), ''The Stage'', 13 October 2011.〕〔Lyn Gardner, ("Do we need diversity quotas for theatre?" ), ''The Guardian'', 9 June 2015.〕〔Georgia Snow, ("Michael Buffong: ‘Use diversity quotas or nothing will change’" ), ''The Stage'', 5 June 2015.〕 〔("Bringing Black into the Theatre Mainstream" ) (Michael Buffong profile), ''Arts Industry (AI)'', 16 December 2012.〕〔 The name Talawa comes from Jamaican patois saying "me lickle but me talawa",〔("Our Story" ), Talawa website.〕 meaning "small but feisty".〔〔Nisha Obano, ("Talawa Theatre Company" ). ''Encyclopedia of AfroEuropean Studies''.〕 ==Mission== Talawa Theatre Company's Mission Statement: "''Talawa is Britain's primary Black led theatre company. We create outstanding work informed by the wealth and diversity of the Black British experience. We invest in talent, build audiences and inspire dialogue with and within communities across Britain. By doing so we enrich British cultural life.''"〔 The company's mission is to provide opportunities for black directors, writers and actors, to use black culture to enrich British theatre, and to enlarge theatre audiences seeing black work.〔 Talawa's work embraces both literary and participation activities, finding and developing new writers and scripts, workshops for schools, colleges and corporate clients and presenting new work by emerging artists.〔("About Talawa" ), Talawa Theatre website.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Talawa Theatre Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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