2025-01-13
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This week on Witness History.
One day in 1980, Thomas Keneally went into a shop to buy a briefcase.
But the store owner told him a remarkable tale, that of Oskar Schindler, who saved more than a thousand Jews during the Holocaust.
Thomas published the story in a book in 1982, which was made into the award winning film Schindler's List.
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It was like, I'm gonna show you everything that's wonderful about being a young black boy so that you won't ever have to look at us and degrade us to being black in the hood, you know, and we set that up with bright colors, you know, and the set almost looked like a playground because most of us had to grow up really, really quick.
What does it mean if we can get that humanity back?
And would that give us a different level of hope for our future?
Challenging stereotypes by bringing black boy joy on stage was something writer Ryan Calais Cameron had been planning for a while.
And he was determined to do it in spectacular fashion.
And we used song, we used dance, we used rap, we used prose, we used poetry.
We're incredible.
And I was like, let's showcase that.
Let's see what happens.
It's either gonna be a masterpiece or a mess.
And what happened next was something he hadn't anticipated.
His show became a smash success and he rose as one of Britain's most sought after playwrights.
It was a thriving career in the performing arts and an unrealistic dream Ryan had defied all odds to achieve.