Agbaje has an astute eye and ear and offers a different perspective to her male counterparts.

Guardian

In her remarkable debut as a playwright Bola Agbaje walks two teenage black brothers around a dilapidated London council estate. She exploits their close encounters to give us a jolting lesson about the range of identities, beliefs and anxieties concealed beneath black or blackish skins.

Evening Standard

Nigeria, England, America, Jamaica; are you proud of where you're from? Dark skinned, light skinned, afro, weaves, who are your true brothers and sisters?

When two brothers from different continents go down the street to buy a pint of milk, they lift the lid on a disunited nation where everyone wants to be an individual but no one wants to stand out from the crowd.

A debut work produced at the Royal Court's Young Writers Festival, Gone Too Far! is a comic and astute play about identity, history and culture, portraying a world where respect is always demanded but rarely freely given.

Gone Too Far! premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2007 where it was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, 2008. It is published here in an abridged form as part of Methuen Drama's Plays For Young People series.

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A new edition of Bola Agbaje's award-winning play about the experiences of multicultural Londoners and the challenges faced by young people growing up with shared experiences, edited for 16-18 year olds.
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Winner of the 2008 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre
Methuen Drama’s Plays for Young People series offers an excellent selection of single plays and anthologies aimed at young people to perform. The series features the highest-quality work by established playwrights, which is age-appropriate and organised into age bands to help teachers and youth theatre leaders select the most suitable work for their group.
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ISBN
9781350261037
Publisert
2021-04-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Methuen Drama
Vekt
89 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
8 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
96

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Bola Agbaje is a playwright who graduated from the young writers programme at the Royal Court in 2007. Her first play Gone Too Far! was performed at the Royal Court Theatre (Upstairs) in February 2007. In 2008, the play won the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliated Theatre. The play was revived in 2008 and returned for a run in the main Downstairs space at the Court, as well as at the Hackney Empire and Albany Theatre. Agbaje was also nominated for the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright of the Year in 2008. Other plays include Off the Endz and Belong.