The line in Renell Shaw's story is refusal to choose a single lane, refusal to separate performance from composition, refusal to treat history as something fixed behind glass. By the time he was in his mid-teens, theatre and music had stopped competing for his attention. They had fused into a single artistic language.

Opening up about the importance of community in the creative process and the need for Black British classics for the culture, actress Cherrelle Skeete shares their experience playing the role of Darlene Holt in the largest ever staging of the play Alterations at the National Theatre, running until April 5th. 

Salena Godden details her journey through creativity and how navigating identity, having diverse heritage including Jamaican intertwines with modern and historical contexts, feeds into the artistic process.