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Author: Toni Roberts

Toni Roberts is a writer from and based in London. She primarily writes plays and had a short play performed as part of The Platform at The Bread & Roses Theatre, which ran on 23rd and 24th February 2020. She studied English Language and Spanish at the University of Westminster where she first got into playwriting and has recently expanded her writing range to include poetry and essays.

Maz Hedgehog’s Let Me Count The Ways at Hope Mill Theatre

22nd June 202122nd June 2021  Toni Roberts

Back for a second run, Maz Hedgehog’s play, Let Me Count the Ways, blends monologue with poetry in this one-woman show about mental health, blackness, queerness and beauty.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Faye Draper, Hope Mill Theatre, love, Maz Hedgehog, Mental Health, self-love, Theatre

Hymn by Lolita Chakrabarti at the Almeida Theatre

19th February 202119th February 2021  Toni Roberts

Lolita Chakrabarti’s play, Hymn, is a heartfelt and sensitive exploration of family, male friendship and the power of music.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Adrian Lester, Almeida Theatre, Blanche McIntyre, Danny Sapani, Hymn, live theatre, Lolita Chakrabarti, Review, streaming, Theatre, Toni Roberts

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League with the Night at Tate Britain

4th February 20214th February 2021  Toni Roberts

Before the second lockdown Toni Roberts saw Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s show Fly in League with the Night at Tate Britain. Here, she recalls vibrant paintings alive with stories, brilliant studies of people, and human relationships that transcend the canvas’ edges.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Andrea Schlieker, art, Cézanne, Fly in League with the Night, Francisco de Goya, Isabella Maidment, John Singer Sargent, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Manet, painting, portraits, portraiture, Tate, Tate Britain, Walter Sickert

Adopting an Additional Identity

10th December 202011th December 2020  Toni Roberts

Little did Toni Roberts know that her decision to study Spanish at school would turn into a life-long love for a language that has since given her confidence, creativity and, above all, joy.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Christine and the Queens, Federico Garcia Lorca, Flamenco, French, Frida Kahlo, GCSE, Languages, Life in Languages, Life writing, Rosalía, Spanish, Spanish songs, Toni Roberts, Translation

Women of the Night, Chapter 3: Vrăjitoare, Romania’s Witch Business

25th November 202026th November 2020  Toni Roberts

In the third chapter of her mini-series, Toni Roberts discovers that witchcraft is alive and well in Romania. Looking at Lucia Sekerková Bláhová’s photography series, Vrăjitoare, the modern, technologically savvy face of magic and witchery is revealed.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts EssaysTagged: Lucia Sekerková Bláhová, Magic, Night / Shift, Romania, Toni Roberts, Vrăjitoare, witchcraft, witches, Women of the Night

Women of the Night, Chapter 2: Nocturnal Mothering

23rd September 202025th November 2020  Toni Roberts

Looking at the work of photographer Ana Casas Broda, poet Muriel Rukeyser and musician Sherri Dupree-Bemis, Toni Roberts considers night from the perspectives of mothers, reflecting on their nocturnal experiences and reveries.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts EssaysTagged: Ana Casas Broda, Breast feeding, Eisley, Kinderwunsch, Louder than a Lion, maternity, milk, Motherhood, mothers, Muriel Rukeyser, music, Night, Night / Shift, Photography, Poetry, Sherri DuPree-Bemis, Toni Roberts, Women of the Night

Women of the Night, Chapter 1: Lorca’s “Rural Trilogy”

3rd September 202025th November 2020  Toni Roberts

Sympathising with the marginalised, Lorca wrote spirited plays featuring aspirational but oppressed women who sought freedom, pleasure and solace under the cover of night. Here, in the first essay of her mini series, Toni Roberts explores Lorca’s rural trilogy, reflecting on his heroines’ relationship to the night – and day.

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Posted in Arts, Books, TheatreTagged: Abortion, Billie Piper, Blood Wedding, Duende, Federico Garcia Lorca, Flamenco, Johan Persson, La Barraca, Lorca, Marc Brenner, National Theatre, Night / Shift, Rural trilogy, Southern Spain, Spain, The House of Bernarda Alba, Theatre, Toni Roberts, Women of the Night, Yerma, Young Vic

Postcards in Isolation 7: Mona Hatoum, Hot Spot III, 2009

29th May 202020th June 2020  Toni Roberts

Toni Roberts discusses how Mona Hatoum’s radiant red sculpture, Hot Spot III, 2009, has become a relevant work of art during her time in lockdown and a metaphor for our cage-like existence.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, Contemporary Art, Covid-19, globalisation, Hot Spot III, installation, Lockdown Living, Mona Hatoum, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, sculpture, Tate, Tate Modern, war, White Cube
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