How do we make theatre based on archival materials? How does it differ from writing history? And what is at stake when the subject matter is the lives and struggles of enslaved people? Historian Diana Paton (University of Edinburgh) and playwright and actor Catherine Bisset discuss these questions. They will reflect on their experience of working together on a new play, Apprentice, about the final years of slavery in Jamaica, as well as on Diana's work with a Jamaican American performance artist, Jodie Lynn-Key-Chow on her piece 'Living Her-stories of Sugar', and Catherine's play Placeholder, about theatre in colonial Saint Domingue.

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Photo credit: Ruben Natal San Miguel