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An Interview with Yvonne Brewster

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Brewster on her childhood in Jamaica, training at Rose Bruford and her subsequent career, as well as the difficulties of getting work as a black actress and the experiences of her contemporaries.

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Yvonne Brewster was born in Jamaica in 1938. She set up Jamaica’s first professional theatre company at the Barn Theatre Kingston, and also co-founded the Talawa Theatre Company in the UK, in 1985.