Barber Shop Chronicles
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-350-20014-2 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.09.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Student Editions |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 120 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-20014-X / 135020014X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-20014-2 / 9781350200142 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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