Inua Ellams

Barber Shop Chronicles

Herausgeber: Agboluaje, Oladipo; Freeman, Sara; Nichols, Matthew; Stevens, Jenny; Megson, Chris

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Newsroom, political platform, local hot spot, confession box, preacher-pulpit and football stadium. For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always telling. Barber Shop Chronicles, which was partly inspired by verbatim recordings, is a heart-warming, hilarious and insightful play that leaps from a barber shop in Peckham to Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos and Accra over the course of a single day. It was first produced by the National Theatre, Fuel and Leeds Playhouse in 2017 and is here publishedas a Methuen Drama Student Edition with commentary and notes by Oladipo Agboluaje.

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Produktdetails

• Student Editions
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 523680
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 127mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 120g
• ISBN-13: 9781350200142
• ISBN-10: 135020014X
• Artikelnr.: 61618189

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

CHRONOLOGY COMMENTARY PLAYWRIGHT CONTEXT Black British drama (including
work of practitioners such as Roy Williams, debbie tucker green and
Mojisola Adebayo) THEMES Masculinity (including sport and sexuality) and
how it shapes characters and subverts universal and specifically black and
African notions of masculinity GENRE Verbatim theatre (use of transcripts
to create a work of fiction); comparing to other verbatim plays such as
London Road and The Permanent Way SETTING Barbershop as a 'safe space' for
black men Diasporic movements - how the play's transnational locations
construct a 'black' identity PLAY TEXT FURTHER READING