Oberon Modern Playwrights
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‘These five plays represent the diverse scope and content of Mojisola’s work, and demonstrate an ongoing commitment to an artistic practice that is both stylistically innovative and politically astute.’ – Lynette Goddard, from her introduction
The plays collected here showcase Adebayo’s varied talents through her unflinching political writing about race, gender, sex and sexuality, feminist history and politics. With settings spanning from South Africa to the Middle East, the United States, a mythical kingdom, South London and outer space, the five plays included are:
I Stand Corrected: a soulful artistic response to the phenomenon of ‘corrective’ hate rape and murder of lesbians and trans men in South Africa
Asara and the Sea-Monstress: a play for young people about a left-handed girl growing up in a mythical right-handed Kingdom
Oranges and Stones (previously 48 Minutes for Palestine): an exploration of one woman’s life under occupation in Palestine
The Interrogation of Sandra Bland: a verbatim play transcribing the dash cam recording of Sandra Bland’s arrest into a choral performance by black women
STARS: a space odyssey telling the story of a very old lady who goes into outer space in search of her own orgasm
The plays collected here showcase Adebayo’s varied talents through her unflinching political writing about race, gender, sex and sexuality, feminist history and politics. With settings spanning from South Africa to the Middle East, the United States, a mythical kingdom, South London and outer space, the five plays included are:
I Stand Corrected: a soulful artistic response to the phenomenon of ‘corrective’ hate rape and murder of lesbians and trans men in South Africa
Asara and the Sea-Monstress: a play for young people about a left-handed girl growing up in a mythical right-handed Kingdom
Oranges and Stones (previously 48 Minutes for Palestine): an exploration of one woman’s life under occupation in Palestine
The Interrogation of Sandra Bland: a verbatim play transcribing the dash cam recording of Sandra Bland’s arrest into a choral performance by black women
STARS: a space odyssey telling the story of a very old lady who goes into outer space in search of her own orgasm
Includes the plays Moj of the Antarctic, Desert Boy, Matt Henson: North Star and Muhammad Ali and Me
This collection signals the emergence of a distinctive new voice on the British theatre landscape. Moj of the Antarctic is inspired by the true story of an African American woman who cross-dresses as a white man to escape slavery; taken on a fantastical odyssey to Antarctica. Time Out Critics’ Choice
‘The language is rich and densely poetic. Reveling in the materiality and playfulness of words, cracking open complex ideas like eggshells.’ - Total Theatre Magazine
Muhammad Ali and Me is a lyrical coming of age story, following the parallel struggles of a gay girl child growing up in foster care and the black Muslim boxing hero’s fight against racism and the Vietnam war.
‘As a piece of stagecraft, an entertaining kaleidoscope of social and political history, only one description will do: this is a play that ‘floatslike a butterfly and stings like a bee.’ - WhatsOnStage
Desert Boy, a time-travelling a capella musical, offers a sharp twist on the subject of knife crime, black youth and absent fathers.
‘…a spiralling journey through colonial history not unlike Dante’s introduction to the Inferno. The juxtapositions are sometimes startling, and often quite comic.’ - Guardian
Matt Henson, North Star is a biographical tale of Arctic betrayal, mixed with Greenlandic folk tales; all about love, climate and change.
These plays queer the boundaries of sex and race, fact and fiction, history and geography, poetry and politics to illuminate contemporary themes through a dynamic African Diasporic theatrical aesthetic that leaps off the page.
This collection signals the emergence of a distinctive new voice on the British theatre landscape. Moj of the Antarctic is inspired by the true story of an African American woman who cross-dresses as a white man to escape slavery; taken on a fantastical odyssey to Antarctica. Time Out Critics’ Choice
‘The language is rich and densely poetic. Reveling in the materiality and playfulness of words, cracking open complex ideas like eggshells.’ - Total Theatre Magazine
Muhammad Ali and Me is a lyrical coming of age story, following the parallel struggles of a gay girl child growing up in foster care and the black Muslim boxing hero’s fight against racism and the Vietnam war.
‘As a piece of stagecraft, an entertaining kaleidoscope of social and political history, only one description will do: this is a play that ‘floatslike a butterfly and stings like a bee.’ - WhatsOnStage
Desert Boy, a time-travelling a capella musical, offers a sharp twist on the subject of knife crime, black youth and absent fathers.
‘…a spiralling journey through colonial history not unlike Dante’s introduction to the Inferno. The juxtapositions are sometimes startling, and often quite comic.’ - Guardian
Matt Henson, North Star is a biographical tale of Arctic betrayal, mixed with Greenlandic folk tales; all about love, climate and change.
These plays queer the boundaries of sex and race, fact and fiction, history and geography, poetry and politics to illuminate contemporary themes through a dynamic African Diasporic theatrical aesthetic that leaps off the page.