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African Plays
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King Baabu
This chronicles the debauched rule of General Basha Bash who takes power in a coup and exchanges his general’s uniform for a robe and crown In the manner of Jarry’s Ubu Roi, this is a ferocious,…
Marching for Fausua
Marching for Fausa was premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1993 and deals with political corruption in the Federal Republic of Songhai, a fictional country on the west coast of Africa. A young…
Missing & Crossing & Miracle
These three plays are folkloric and ostensibly naive pieces of Afrikaner storytelling They deal with the liberation of a character from an oppressive, matriarchal order and as such are eloquent and haunting…
Mule Bone - A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts
This volume tells the story of the play’s conception and inspiration and gives complete details of the irreparable rift in Hurston and Hughes’s friendship that came about because…
Oroonoko
Large Mixed Cast Male, 3 Female
An adaptation of Aphra Behn’s 1688 “histiry” of Oroonoko, an African prince tricked into slavery and transported to South America
Plays from the Arab World
A collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa In 2007 the Royal Court Theatre’s International Department and the British Council…
Resurrections
8 Male, 2 Female
Resurrections is set in Bandele’s homeland, Nigeria. Subversive and satirical drama takes us into a world where shady drug dealers and corrupt lawyers operating within a Byzantine legal system are visited…
