Peggy Bennette Hume Explained

Peggy Bennette Hume is a British playwright and children's author.

Life

Peggy Bennette Hume was born in London to Trinidadian parents.^[1]

Bennette Hume's play The Girl Who Wished was performed at the Tricycle Theatre in 1985.^{[2] [3]} In 1986 she was appointed the first writer in residence at the Battersea Arts Centre, making her the only black woman writer in residence in London.^[4]

Works

Play productions

• No Hard Feelings. Roots Theatre Company, 1985.
• The Girl Who Wished. Tricycle Theatre, 1985.
• This Way Up. Bemarrow Sisters Theatre Company, 1986.

Publications

• The Girl Who Wished. New Millenium, 1997.
• Plaiting: for all little girls who have ever suffered with 'bed hairs' and 'sombrero hairs' . United Kingdom : The Choir Press, 2014. Parallel English text and Swedish translation. With illustrations by Gemma Adams, music composed by John Hare.

External links

• Bennette Hume; Peggy at the Black Plays Archive

Notes and References

1. Book: Helen Thomas. Lynnette Goddard. Deirdre Osborne. Mary Brewer. Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama. https://books.google.com/books?id=EppMDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA28. 2014. Macmillan Education UK. 978-1-137-50629-0. 28. The Social and Political Context of Black British Theatre: 1950s–80s.
2. Book: Nicola Abram. Black British Women's Theatre: Intersectionality, Archives, Aesthetics. 2020. Springer International Publishing. 978-3-030-51459-4. 74.
3. https://www.blackplaysarchive.org.uk/explore/productions/girl-who-wished The Girl Who Wished
4. Spare Rib, 1987. Online here. Accessed 12 December 2020.