Tuesday 21 November 2006

Exploration of emotions, meaning, truth and visions by words and performance

Absurd, contemporary, mythical and polemic plays by
leading Zambian born UK-based playwright

Mythical absurdism
Phantom of mirror image
The Legend of Myth
Lillian Avon, the Zambian born 41 year old founder of the Bournemouth Literary Festival (www.bournemouthliteraryfestival.co.uk) - a growing multi-cultural festival that fuses literature with performing arts - was raised and educated in England, Hong Kong and Zambia. She has worked as a PR Executive, Personal Assistant and Speech & Drama Teacher. In 1997 she established Nova Theatre and wrote and produced her first, AMAH, at the Tara Arts Centre in London. Her favourite writers and playwrights include: Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Luigi Pirandello. She has also written a compendium of short stories and edited a collection of children's stories called 'The Kingdom of Bongwe' which are contemporised Zambian folklore.
Lillian can be contacted at: Lillyavon@aol.com

2 comments:

Deej said...

Glad to see you've got this online. All the very best of luck in all of your various projects, Lillian. David Jones, Bournemouth.

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