ABSTRACT
The first chapter in this section is an abbreviated version of the keynote address delivered by Dawn Walton at the Whose Heritage? Symposium, 24 May 2019. Dawn Walton was the then Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Eclipse, the UK’s principal Black-led theatre production company. Walton speaks about the importance of her work directing significant Black theatre productions and, as CEO of Eclipse, developing Revolution Mix, the largest ever delivery of new Black British productions for stage, screen and radio, and Slate: Black. Arts. World., a ground-breaking programme enabling Black artists in the North to work regionally, nationally and internationally. Her work represents the dynamism and potential called out by Stuart Hall as essential to changing the sensibility of the ‘post-nation’.
