Selina Thompson

Her work has been shown at Spill, Fierce, Mayfest, the Birmingham REP and the West Yorkshire Playhouse.

is a one-woman show inspired by the artist retracing the journey she took from Britain to Ghana to Jamaica and back of the transatlantic slave triangle.

The show details Thompson's own journey and experiences as well as those of the millions of black men, women and children who also undertook it.

explores themes such as sorrow, colonialism, ancestry and home, as a result of the two artists' experiences on board a cargo ship for a three-month voyage.

[5] In the show Thompson wore a white dress, under which she dragged objects onto the stage under her skirt, before telling her story.

[7] Race Cards is written and performed as a one-woman show by Thompson who is seated at a desk, with a pen in hand, which is placed in an open space with 1000 blank pieces of card which throughout the piece she writes questions that challenges the audience to question when and are we able to speak about and discuss race honesty, openly and can it be done without bias, privilege and ignorance.

Thompson, after writing the question, would place the card on the walls of the space, the audience is encouraged to write a response with red ink at the back of the card, at the end of the performance the audience is told to copy down a question to take with them and to essentially reflect on once outside of the space.

– Lyn Gardner[12] "The work isn't about answering questions; it's about igniting an internal discussion in each of us that allows for the possibility of self-awareness, analysis and reflection."