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Barber Shop Chronicles: Oberon Modern Plays

Autor Inua Ellams
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 iun 2017
Barber Shop Chronicles is a generously funny, heart-warming and insightful new play set in five African cities, Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos, Accra, and in London
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781786821782
ISBN-10: 1786821788
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Oberon Books
Seria Oberon Modern Plays

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Accompanying commentary and notes unpack the play for students and teachers alike, offering insights into the play and original production plus interview material with the playwright

Notă biografică

Inua Ellams was born in Nigeria and is an internationally touring poet, playwright, performer, graphic artist and designer. He is an ambassador for the Ministry of Stories and has published four books of poetry: Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars, Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales, The Wire-Headed Heathen and #Afterhours. His first play, The 14th Tale, was awarded a Fringe First at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival and his fourth play, Barber Shop Chronicles, sold out its run at the National Theatre. He is currently touring An Evening With An Immigrant and working on The Half God of Rainfall - a new play in verse. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.Oladipo 'Dipo' Agboluaje is a British-Nigerian playwright and academic, born in Hackney and educated in Britain and Nigeria. He studied Theatre Arts at the University of Benin, Nigeria, and later wrote a doctoral thesis at the Open University, UK, on West and South African drama. He won the Alfred Fagon prize for playwriting for his play Iya-lle and is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, working in partnership with the University of East London, UK.

Recenzii

This is an absolute cracker. Inua Ellams has the simple but ingenious idea of exploring black masculinity through the humble barber's shop... It's funny, fast, laced with music and dance, and performed with irresistible good humour and style... But deep down this is also a thoughtful, serious and moving piece of drama... he writes with zip and a wonderful ear, and the piece is beautifully woven.
It's a play crammed with questions, discussing African attitudes to parental discipline in one scene, and the role Nigerian Pidgin plays in cultural identity in the next. Idea follows idea: Christianity as a business fattening the wallets of pastors; the western media's depiction of Lagos; the way that words can be used to debase and destroy. Again and again the plays returns to the theme of black masculinity and the different shapes it can take... The tone of the play shifts fluidly from comedy to poignancy to rage... This is all handled with skill and a huge amount of warmth. Barber Shop Chronicles is a pleasure to experience. The level of joy in the room is high... Rich, exhilarating theatre that opens a window into a world of men.
It's always bracing to watch the National open its arms, doors and repertoire to new work, new audiences, new experiences. There's certainly not been anything like this all-male, all-black piece from poet/playwright Inua Ellams, which bounces with brio as it whisks us around a series of African barber shops in six countries on two continents over the space of a single day... it becomes gradually clear that these resolutely female-free spaces are also part confessional, part psychiatrist's chair for both the staff and customers. Hefty topics ripple and re-echo over the thousands of miles that separate the establishments: how to be a father, how to be a son, how to be a man. A joke about a fly in a pint also travels effortlessly.

Cuprins

CHRONOLOGYCOMMENTARYPLAYWRIGHTCONTEXTBlack British drama (including work of practitioners such as Roy Williams, debbie tucker green and Mojisola Adebayo)THEMESMasculinity (including sport and sexuality) and how it shapes characters and subverts universal and specifically black and African notions of masculinityGENREVerbatim theatre (use of transcripts to create a work of fiction); comparing to other verbatim plays such as London Road and The Permanent WaySETTINGBarbershop as a 'safe space' for black menDiasporic movements - how the play's transnational locations construct a 'black' identityPLAY TEXTFURTHER READING