[1] It aimed to produce dramas, revues and musicals, giving writers a chance to see their work performed as well as creating opportunities for black artists and technicians to gain experience, so as to develop and improve standards in every branch of theatre.
[2] The George Padmore Institute holds archive material related to the NWT, with the description: "As an ensemble of professional and amateur actors, directors and writers, the NTW performed original works in community centres, town halls, churches and cathedrals up and down the country as well as representing the United Kingdom at the First World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar (Senegal).
[1] In 1966, at the first World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal, The Dark Disciples[9] was the production with which the NTW was invited to represent Britain (along with the Pan African Players, another British group, led by Yulisa Amadu Pat Maddy,[10] which performed its only show, Obi Egbuna's Wind versus Polygamy).
[3] According to Chambers: "That year, the NTW also received an Arts Council grant of £300, probably the first awarded to a black theatre company, and produced Henry A Zeiger's Mr Hubert, an American play about a Harlem Everyman figure with a cast of more than thirty.
"[3] The NTW additionally contributed to the development of black film in Britain by co-producing and distributing titles such as Edric Connor's Carnival Fantastique (1960), Trevor Rhone's Smile Orange and Horace Ové's Pressure (1976).