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ROTIMI BABATUNDE |
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Nationality: Nigerian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Plays by Rotimi Babatunde |
Bonfire of the Innocents, The (Elddopet) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Riksteatern, Stockholm | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Riksteatern | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #103047 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Translated into Swedish as Elddopet for Riksteatern's World Playwrights Project | |||||
Synopsis: | Paul has just moved from his father's plantage into the big city. Here, he feels lonely and hasn't met any friends. At his boarding school he finds himself chased by two other students. He doesn't know what they want but it doesn't feel as if they want to be his friend. Their intention to make Paul succumb to the school's hierarchy forces the young people into a dangerous game of life and death. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Infidel In The Upper Room, An | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, London (reading) | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82384 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Specially commissioned as part of Small Talk: Big Picture (A Royal Court/BBC World Service joint project) | |||||
Synopsis: | Two old men on opposing sides of the religious divide find their friendship under test on account of the controversy triggered by the Danish cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Shroud for Lazarus, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Halcyon Theatre, Chicago | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #103048 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | There has been a drought and only The Plantation has the resources to bring water down to its fields. Most of the small farmers in town have been compelled to work for the Plantation. The majority of townspeople opt for solace in the congregation of Papa, a local preacher. Ajala, the community rebel dogged by creditors and cursed by Papa, mysteriously dies. After the creditors depart he rises up and plans to use his "resurrection" to bring down Papa and The Plantation but things do not go as planned. | |||||
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