Black teeth and a brilliant smile

They used to say I had a chip on my shoulder. Whatever that means. I couldn’t ever work that out but I know I always felt that I wasn’t as good as other people. I was angry. ‘Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile’ tells the story of the tragically short life of playwright Andrea Dunbar. Interweaving fact and fiction, letters and scripts, newspaper stories and memory, Adelle Stripe reveals how a shy teenage girl defied the circumstances into which she was born, and the prejudice she met, to become one of her generation’s greatest dramatists.