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Author Biyi Bandele from Aphra Behn
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Oroonoko
Large Mixed Cast Male, 3 Female
In 1688 the British writer and playwright Aphra Behn published her ‘true history’ called Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave. It tells the story of an African prince, tricked into slavery and transported to the…
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…
Death Catches the Hunter
When the Prophet Emefa receives the word of God he founds a new church, and the people flock to see the miracles he performs. He cures the paralysed and restores sight to the blind. His final act of daring…
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…
Marching for Fausua
4 Male, 3 Female
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…
Two Horseman
2 Male, 0 Female
“In Two Horsemen ‘Biyi Bandele writes sympathetically about imaginative escape from drudgery. Two men in a hut while away the time talking. They say they are street-sweepers, but gradually they slither…
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
