When asked if there is a crisis in black theatre in Britain, Nicolas Kent, director of north London’s Tricycle Theatre, has more than a little to say. “I could go on and on listing the problems. The fact that there is no theatre building run by a black or Asian director, that there is no black children’s company and that theatre staffs and boards are overwhelmingly white.” And what about so-called “color-blind casting?” “We don’t just need to be told that the RSC is to have a black Henry VI. What we need is enough money to support black companies to do black-generated work.” – The Guardian