That claim on the blue plaque needs to be qualified to 'Britain's first Arts Council Funded Black theatre company_'; Black theatre companies were working in the UK from at least the 1880s (OH is a theatre historian working in this area, so I get to read her drafts...).
That claim on the blue plaque needs to be qualified to 'Britain's first Arts Council Funded Black theatre company_'; Black theatre companies were working in the UK from at least the 1880s (OH is a theatre historian working in this area, so I get to read her drafts...).