The Green Room clears obstacles for black writers

The challenges black writers face in the UK, to be broadcast in a forthcoming play, The Green Room, are ‘subtle and pertinent’ reminders of the prejudice that has been at large in British society for decades. Back in the 1950s, Britons who arrived from the Caribbean looking for accommodation often found signs in the windows of prospective landlords declaring ‘No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs’. The same kind of discrimination has been at play in the book industry, albeit covertly so, and if not covertly then politely. Prospective writers of colour have often been told that their work was ‘not quite right for us’. Such cliches and tropes will be satirized in The Green Room, written by Irenosen Okojie and Yvette Edwards at Theatre Peckham in south London. Okojie will also feature in a guest edition of WritersMosaic later in the year.

https://www.theatrepeckham.co.uk/show/the-green-room/