1st Edition

Winsome Pinnock

By Kate Dorney Copyright 2026
190 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Winsome Pinnock is the first book length study of one of Britain’s most important play-wrights and her four-decade long career chronicling the lives of Black people, and Black women in particular, in Britain. It offers a detailed and sustained analysis of Pinnock’s plays, attending to their formal, aesthetic and thematic qualities as well as in-depth examination of the socio-cultural and... Read more

Introduction Part One: Contexts 1. Winsome Pinnock: Early Life and Career Overview 2. Black And British: History, Identity, Intersectionality, Aesthetics and Presence Part Two: Themes 3. (Un)Belonging 4. Family Ties 5. Writing Wrongs: Exploitation and Enslavement 6. Writing for Radio and Short Plays Part Three: Plays in Production 7. Leave Taking in Production 8. One Under in Production 9. Rockets and Blue Lights in Production. Works Cited

Biography

Kate Dorney is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre & Performance at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research focuses on theatre in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries, and in particular on playwriting, feminist theatre history, arts funding and archival and curatorial studies. Her books include The Changing Language of Modern English Drama (2009), Played in Britain: Modern British Theatre in 100 Plays (2012, with Frances Gray) and Stage Women (2019, with Maggie B Gale).