'Each day teaches something new - if you're willing to learn. And this year has taught me it all basically comes down to the same thing: You create Heaven and Hell. Hell hides in making others responsible for your story. Heaven lies in full honest ownership of your life. Nobody else can make you happy, beautiful, desirable or valuable. You are all your problems and solutions. You have total power. And you can choose to use it wisely.' 'Don't ask to be lucky. Make everyone you meet feel lucky... That's success.' 365 life-lessons from the on-line diary of writer/director/performer Rikki Beadle-Blair. Honest. Clear. Loving. Powerful. Poetic. Practical. Inspiring. Rikki Beadle-Blair was born and raised in South London. He attended the Bermondsey Lampost Free School where he could study whatever he liked and so focused on the arts and entertainment. He makes films, theatre, music, dance and art. His production company Team Angelica has developed several plays and films, including 'Bashment', 'Fit', 'KickOff', 'Taken In' and the South London Passion Plays. Passionate about encouraging creativity and self-expression, Rikki has developed several courses under the 'In the Room' banner to facilitate creative career advancement.

What I Learned Today

Self-Help

Beadle-Blair, Rikki

Creativity

angelica entertainment ltd

A new book of motivational daily meditations from writer-director Rikki Beadle-Blair, author of 'What I Learned Today' encouraging readers to seize control of their lives and take responsibility for discovering, nurturing and displaying their inner joy to the world. Practical, tough-minded, uplifting.

Reasons to Live

Team Angelica Publishing

A new full-length play by multi award-winning Rikki Beadle-Blair, a cutting-edge romantic comedy about homeless, pansexual, multiracial trans youth and elders, all searching for love and for somwhere to live as a sweltering London summer draws towards its close. Originally performed at London's legendary Theatre Royal Stratford East in July 2017 with an all-trans cast, Summer in London was written, directed, and included a sondtrack composed by Rikki Beadle-Blair. The book includes full cast and crew biogs. Could you find love in London on zero budget? Join four cheeky lads as they compete to win the heart of a beautiful woman called Summer on four free dates across London. Though secretly homeless - and broke - they use every trick in the book to find cost-free ways to impress her. We follow the streetwise romeos on boat rides, to museums, parks and firework displays as they try to win their date. As the sun sets and the drinks flow things get complicated, and we discover nothing is as it first appears. This hilarious new romcom is about friendship, finding love and being yourself.

Summer in London

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

About the Author\nZodwa Nyoni is a Zimbabwean-born playwright and poet based in Leeds, UK. As winner of the Channel 4 Playwright's Scheme, she was Writer-in-Residence at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2014. Her first full-length play, Boi Boi is Dead, was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2014/15. Other theatre credits include: Tangled Roots (2014), Nine Lives (2014), Come To Where I'm From (2013), The Market (2013), Di Daakes' Part A Di Night (2013), Home Has Died (2012), Why The Drought Returns (2012), The Night Shift (2011) and The Povo Die Till Freedom Comes (2010). She has been the recipient of the following awards: Award for the Arts 2011 (Leeds Black Awards) and the Young Black and Asian Writers Award (The Big Issue in the North's Short Story Competition 2011).\nMojisola Adebayo is a playwright, performer, director, producer, workshop facilitator and lecturer. She has a BA in Drama and Theatre Arts, an MA in Physical Theatre and her PhD is entitled Afriquia Theatre: Creating Black Queer Ubuntu Through Performance (Goldsmiths, Royal Holloway and Queen Mary, University of London). Mojisola trained extensively with Augusto Boal and is an international specialist in Theatre of the Oppressed, often working in locations of crisis and conflict. She has worked in theatre, radio and television, on four continents, over the past 25 years, performing in over 50 productions, writing, devising and directing over 30 plays, and leading countless workshops, from Antarctica to Zimbabwe. Her own authored plays include Moj of the Antarctic: An African Odyssey (Lyric Hammersmith and Ovalhouse, London), Muhammad Ali and Me (Ovalhouse, Albany Theatre, London and UK touring), 48 Minutes for Palestine (Ashtar Theatre and international touring), Desert Boy (Albany Theatre, London and UK touring), The Listeners (Pegasus Theatre, Oxford), I Stand Corrected (Artscape, Ovalhouse, London and international touring and The Interrogation of Sandra Bland (Bush Theatre, London).\nJacqueline Rudet (aka Magdalene St Luce) is a playwright. She was born in England but spent her early years in Dominica before moving back to Britain. She studied drama at Barking College and began her career as an actress with the alternative theatre companies CAST and Belt and Braces, before forming Imani-Faith, a group founded to present theatre for and by black women. She went on to write for Black Theatre Co-operative, the Royal Court and Croydon Warehouse. Her plays include God's Second in Command, Take Back What's Yours, Basin and Money To Live.\nTravis Alabanza is a performer, writer and theatre-maker. In 2016/17 they became the youngest recipient of the artist-in-residence at the Tate workshop programme, starred in Scottee's theatre production Putting Words in your Mouth at the Roundhouse and the Royal Exchange adaptation of Derek Jarman's Jubilee, performed in venues such as V&A, Tate, ICA, the Roundhouse and Barbican – and had their work featured in The Guardian, BBC, Huck Magazine and more. Known for increasingly paving much of the UK conversation around trans politics, Alabanza has become a staple of the London queer scene and further afield. Giving talks and performances at over 40 UK universities, ranging from the RCA, Central St Martin's, Oxford and Cambridge University, and institutions abroad such as Harvard, Brown University and Austin, Texas. Their debut poetry book Before I step Outside (you love me) released in 2017 has been shipped to over 19 countries worldwide and listed as one of the top trans literary books of 2017. With this book they also have toured Europe and the United States, performing and reading it to over 200 venues and countless audiences, including Harvard University, Brighton Art Festival, Macedonia Pride and more. In the last two years they have been noted by numerous publications, such as ARTSY, ID and MOBO _AWARDS as one of the most prominent emerging queer artistic voices, and also listed in OUT as an influential queer f

Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners: An Anthology of Afriquia Theatre: Basin; Boy with Beer; Sin Dykes; Bashment; Nine Lives; Burgerz; The High Table; Stars

Alabanza, Travis

Adebayo, Mojisola

Mason-John, Valerie

Boakye, Paul

Nyoni, Zodwa

Rudet, Jacqueline

Methuen Drama

Gutted is a fast-paced, powerful new play by Rikki Beadle-Blair. Set in South East London, this is a story about love, family and sordid secrets told through the eyes of four brothers. When the eldest brother comes out of rehab he embarks on a truth-telling mission and triggers an unstoppable family meltdown. In an explosive 24 hours, years of denial are uncovered and life will never be the same again.A thought-provoking and complex drama, Gutted reveals Beadle-Blair at his best. This is daring, shocking and intensely emotional work infused with warmth and humor."Good characters, good lines, plenty of heart and an exciting willingness to address knotty questions of identity and sexuality." - The Times

Gutted (Oberon Modern Plays)

Oberon Books

"Provocative and very timelythis is a brave play." -Observer

Bashment (Oberon Modern Plays)

Students, teachers, youth theatres, theatre lovers and those involved in the presentation of youth drama.

FIT (Oberon Modern Plays)

In 1930s Berlin, an intriguing city of jazz and cabaret overpowered by the rise of Hitler and World War II, the daughter of a Jewish family falls in love with their black servant. Fast-forward to the tale of a mixed-race couple in seemingly unprejudiced modern-day Brooklyn, where the same family is coping with a number of calamities.

Shalom Baby (Oberon Modern Plays)

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