TheOrator.Press Theatre News & Reviews Page. Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, Nicola Blackman Shares Amazing Insights Into Her Career Including Hate Mail From Racist BBC Viewers, Being Called “A Posh Wog” During A Traffic Stop, And Yet Also Being Stereotyped Whilst Doing Her Job. Confidence, Resilience And A Powerful Voice Kept Her Strong! October 2025

Photo Gallery: With Her Lifetime Achievement Award (October 2025), Playing A Captivating Ringmaster (2018), High Glamour (2018), The First Black Woman To Play Mrs Boyle In Agatha Christie’s Mousetrap (2022), A Sparkly Fairy Godmother In Panto (2022). BalletBlack.co.uk – Being Told They Are Too Muscley And So Ejected From The Royal Ballet School (Having Made It In) Is Now A Less Likely Scenario For Black And Brown Ballet Students Today, Thanks To Cassa Pancho’s Ballet Black Dance School of Supreme Ballet Talent. @balletblackoriginal. Living In America 2006-2014. An International Voiceover Career. (2012) Sporting A Baby Blue Performing Arts Style Wrap-Around-Top Worthy of Any of ‘The Kids From Fame’ Back In The Day And Still A Timeless Classic Today!

Irish Dancing, Physicality, And Being Competitive Are Elements Blackman Inherited From Her Irish-Bajan Parents. And She Says The One Thing Her School Did Instil In The Girls Was Confidence. (Benenden Girls.)

(2025) (2025) @tittyblackbum @TheBBTAs Presentation Night Sunday October 26th 2025 Nicola Speaks To @theorator.press.on.insta (We Were Suffering Cold Symptoms At The Time. Apologies If Ever They’re Audible! Nicola Was Very Floral, Gracious And Regal.)

Her Fascinating Productive Versalility Is Highlighted By Her Attitude To Her Industry. During Her 2022 Run In Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap She Revealed ToThe Stage Magazine That She Had An Appreciation For The Paradoxical ‘Iron Fist In A Velvet Glove’ Phenomenon;

GIF: “I Had To Play Negroe Maids…”

“I do like to play a ‘grand lady’ from time to time” (On One Hand) – And – “I’ll Do Anything, I’m Not Snobbish” (On The Other).

Outrageously, Often Throughout Her Career Blackman Has Had To Fight Off And Overcome Acts of Or Attempts of Repression. This Includes Being Told (More Than Once) “You can’t possibly speak with a better accent than a white person.” (Comment: Such Is The Inhumanity And Ignorance of Racism.)

Yet As Per The Aforementioned Sir Anthony Quayle (Page 1) She Has Also Had Positive Peers Who’ve Enouraged And Supported Her, Such As Director Ian Talbot When She Starred As The First Black Mrs Boyle In The Mouse Trap. She Told Stage Magazine At The Time That He Encourged Her To Use Her Own Voice Instead of That of A Former School Teacher “Who Used To Bark Orders” (Upon Whom She’d Based The Character). Ironically He Said He Felt It Was Too Sterotypical. He Encouraged Her To Be Softer And ore Vulnerable. She Appreciated That.

“America Right Now Is a Poo Show.” “I Wouldn’t Be Allowed In DEspite Being An Irish Citzen.” “Thank Goodness There Are Alot of People Who Are Railling Against It.“

Racist Material Was Pushed Through The Letter Boxes of Battersea’s Residential Streets. Racist Letters From Viewers Had To Be Screened Out At The BBC. Racism Was Rife.