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Valerie Mason-John

VALERIE MASON-JOHN

  
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aka Queenie. Valerie Mason-John (Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of east London) is a British Council Visiting Writer - to Sierra Leone in 2007 and on tour to India in 2008 where she will launch her latest book Broken Voices: Untouchable' Women Speak Out. She is the author of six books and received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of east London 2007, for her lifetime achievements and contributions (through her writing) to the African DiasporA. She has received many awards: amongst these, the Windrush Achievement Award, Arts and Community Pioneer in 2000, and her debut novel Borrowed Body won the Mind Book of the Year Award 2006. Known for her hit play Sin Dykes, which played sell-out seasons, she has also written the Adventures of Snow Black and Rose Red, You Get Me, and collaborated on other plays.

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below is a list of Valerie Mason-John's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Brown Girl In the Ring         Sin Dykes         Snow Black And Rose Red         Surfing the Crone

Brown Girl In the Ring

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monologue of Reigina, the 'brown' girl in the ring, accounting for herself as she struggles 'with the unchosen conditions of [her] life (Butler 1999:19), of being a mixed race girl whose family denies her existence.
- Professor Gabriele Griffin

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in 1999 toured nationally, London, Manchester, Bristol. Aka Sweep it Under the Carpet

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Sin Dykes

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Snow Black And Rose Red

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Stratford Circus, London    2001

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Surfing the Crone

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Institute of Contemporary Arts, London    1996

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