Lemn Sissay’s Life’s Source: An Interview and Commentary

Osborne, Deirdre. 2008. Lemn Sissay’s Life’s Source: An Interview and Commentary. In: Deirdre Osborne, ed. Hidden Gems: Contemporary Black British Plays. London: Oberon Books, pp. 318-326. ISBN 1-84002-843-0 [Book Section]

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Abstract or Description

Drawn from one of the early detailed interviews with sissay about his monodrama, Something Dark, this article contextualises the play in relation to Sissay's poetry and puts the author/performer into dialogue with the many voices that he inhabits in order to represent his life in this facto-fictional form of dramatised life-writing.

Item Type:

Book Section

Keywords:

mondrama, adoption and fostering, life writing, dramatic-poetics

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Theatre and Performance (TAP)

Dates:

DateEvent
March 2008Published

Item ID:

5858

Date Deposited:

03 Oct 2011 12:13

Last Modified:

20 Feb 2022 19:42

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/5858

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