National Playwrights Conference - The Blacks Les Nègres De Jean Genet

Translated By Chris Campbell

Genet's play, part satire and part ritual, remains as profoundly subversive today as it was at its first appearance in the mid-twentieth century. It might be described as a meditation on the invention of the idea of Blackness in the white mind.

Chris Campbell is a writer, translator, and actor. He was the Editorial Director of Oberon Books from 2019 to 2020. He was previously the Literary Manager of the Royal Court Theatre and the Deputy Literary Manager of the National Theatre in London. He has translated plays by Philippe Minyana, David Lescot, Rémi de Vos, Adeline Picault, Magali Mougel, Launcelot Hamelin, Frédéric Blanchette, Catherine-Anne Toupin and Fabrice Roger-Lacan for The National, The Gate, The Almeida, The Donmar, The Traverse and The Young Vic among others. In 2017, Oberon Books published a collection of his contemporary French translations. Recent productions include Right Now (Traverse/Bush/Ustinov) and Suzy Storck (The Gate). As an actor, Chris has worked at theaters including The National, The Royal Court, The Traverse, The West Yorkshire Playhouse, The Birmingham Rep, The Gate and English Touring Theatre. Directors have included Howard Davies, Sir Richard Eyre, Sir Peter Hall, Richard Wilson, William Gaskill, Erica Whyman, Stephen
Daldry, Ian Brown and Annie Castledine. Most recently, he appeared alongside Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady. In 2013 Chris was appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French government.

Location: Dina Merrill Theater - indoors.

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