Juliet Gilkes Romero wins the Alfred Fagon Award
Juliet Gilkes Romero wins the Alfred Fagon Award for Best New Play of 2020 for The Whip
Chair of the Judges, Mimi Findlay says, “We cannot deny that the process of abolishing slavery was a bloody, gruesome and disgusting one. This play, brave and cutting, layered and complex, reveals the baselessness of human nature at times, and its darkest realms, as well as the gritty dysfunction of the human being in search of a better world.
Juliet Gilkes Romerosays “My mission is always to unravel what has lain untold and buried for political expediency. The unknown facts about emancipation and the transatlantic slave trade deserve to be re-examined and future generations have the right to debate how Britain’s collective colonial amnesia, shapes our current cultural reality.