For Your (Re) consideration

Our reading series, For Your (Re)Consideration, returns in 2022 and continues to explore the works of historically overlooked female playwrights.

Ghostlight is developing a new stage adaptation of The Woman of Colour, a novel published anonymously in 1808. Written immediately after the abolition of the British Slave trade, the story follows a biracial heiress on her travels from Jamaica to England to marry as a condition of her father’s will. Like the novel, the staged reading will explore the interconnections of race, gender and class, as well as examining cultural identity and colonial power.

Make/BelievE Festival

In July, Ghostlight presents its third annual Make/Believe festival, as part of the Nightlight young audiences series.

The curated festival of seven short plays by playwrights from around the country, features works geared towards children 10 and under, and feature culturally diverse stories that better represent the world we live in.

This is part of our Nightlight young audiences series, which produces original, adapted and forgotten plays geared toward children and the adults who love them.