Theatre director and founder of Talawa, the company that champions writers and actors of African and Caribbean heritage Theatre director and founder of Talawa, the company that champions writers and actors of African and Caribbean heritage By the time she founded her influential and still thriving Talawa theatre company in 1986, Yvonne Brewster, who has died aged 87, had made waves in her native Jamaica as an actor and director, worked on British TV versions of plays by Jimmy Cliff and her