Black Men Walking

by Testament

“We walk. Though we are written into the landscape you don’t see us. We walked England before the English.”

Thomas, Matthew and Richard walk.

They walk the first Saturday of every month. Walking and talking. But this walk…

Maybe they should have cancelled, but they needed the walk today. Out in the Peaks, they find themselves forced to walk backwards through two thousand years before they can move forwards.

Black Men Walking is part of Revolution Mix. Taking more than 500 years of Black British history as a starting point, the ‘Revolution Mix’ writers are creating and producing an ambitious body of work which will enrich the canon of British theatre with untold British stories.

Genres: Plays

79 pages, ebook

First published March 21, 2018

Reviews

[Dawn lawson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoy this played of 4 men walking. Reading about their experience as black men living with racially and discrimination . A good insights .

[Meg Watts · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really enjoyed the ancestor's voices in this book. Interested to see how it would be put on; it has such a small cast but requires fog/ a huge landscape setting. Would love to see this as a film too !

[Shola · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting play. Set among the scene of three men walking through the hills, it explores racism, black british identity and black British history.. I learnt of John Blanke and Emperor Septimus..amongst others..

[Chloe Beth · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this play!! So emotional and real for many generations and very moving!!

[Joseph Wubber · Rating 3 out of 5]

Idk felt like they all took mushrooms on the hike or sumn

[Joel Wall · Rating 4 out of 5]

really interesting - I kept wondering how they would have put it on at the Exchange, as the in-the-round space would have made some of the levels and moments quite difficult to do.