Dramatic Recreations
- Let Justice Be Done, Mixed Blessings Theatre Group; 2008 play featuring the possible influence that Dido Elizabeth Belle might have had on the Somerset Ruling of 1772.
- An African Cargo by Margaret Busby, Nitro theatre company; staged at Greenwich Theatre, 2007, in commemoration of the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. The play deals with a landmark trial presided over by Lord Mansfield in 1783, resulting from the Zong Massacre, and the character Dido Belle is given a central role in articulating feelings of horror and injustice.
- Dido Belle (2006), a film by Jason Young, originally written as a short period drama titled "Kenwood House" and workshopped at Battersea Arts Centre on 21 June 2006 as part of the Battersea Writers' Group script development programme.
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