Breaking the Silence October 2021 Tour — Collisions Theatre Company

Breaking the Silence Tour October 2021

Created by Collisions Theatre Company in partnership with researchers from the University of Essex and Brunel University London, Breaking the Silence is a unique immersive theatrical tour for Black History Month fictionalizing a meeting by key members of the 18th and early 19th-century British abolitionist movement. We celebrate 18th century Black British Abolitionists such as Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince, and women such as Mary Birkett Card, who along with William Wilberforce used the power of their stories to end the slave trade. Through speeches, personal narratives, and song, we tell their stories in their own words.

Celebrating black british abolitionists

An immersive performance written and directed by Dr Holly Maples, educator and scholar at the University of Essex and Dr Inge Dornan, Historian at Brunel University London designed to raise awareness of the 18th Century Slave Trade in Britain and celebrate 18th century Black British Abolitionists.

Performing in historic churches where freed slaves are buried and/or with close ties to the slave trade and abolition in Sunderland Point, Manchester, Fulham, Hampstead, Soham, Liverpool, Bristol, and Nottingham.

This production is created with support from Arts Council England, Unity Trust, Brunel University Research and Engagement and East 15 School of Acting, University of Essex Research.