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Barber Shop Chronicles de Inua Ellams

Barber Shop Chronicles: Modern Plays

Autor Inua Ellams
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 iul 2021
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.Inspired in part by the story of a Leeds barber, the play invites the audience into a unique environment where the banter may be barbed, but the truth always telling. The barbers of these tales are sages, role models and father figures who keep the men together and the stories alive.Inua Ellams's celebrated play was first produced by the National Theatre, Fuel and Leeds Playhouse in 2017.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350281714
ISBN-10: 1350281719
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Modern Plays

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

An updated and revised edition of Inua Ellams's breakthrough play which ran at London's National Theatre in 2017

Notă biografică

Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a cross-art-form practitioner, a poet, playwright, performer, graphic artist, designer and founder of the Midnight Run-a nocturnal urban excursion. He is a Complete Works poet alumni and a designer at White Space Creative Agency. Inua's previous plays at the National include The 14th Tale (Fringe First award) and Black T-Shirt Collection. Other plays include Knight Watch at Greenwich + Docklands Festival; Cape at the Unicorn; Three Sisters at the National Theatre and The Half God of Rainfall at the Kiln Theatre. Radio plays include The Ballad of Abdul Hafiz and Wild Blood. He has published three five books poetry; Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars, Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales and The Wire-Headed Heathen, #Afterhours and The Actual.

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